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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: A Language Arts Grammar Jigsaw

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This site explains how to engage students using the Jigsaw method for grammar study.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Jigsaw

For Students 3rd - 5th
Selection of jigsaw puzzles on themes related to ancient Egypt.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: 7 Free Jigsaw Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Step by step guidelines explaining how to use seven different Jigsaw Activities in the classroom.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Jigsaw

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Types of Chemical Reactions Jigsaw

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will perform chemical reactions for the class to observe evidence of reactions and write equations to describe the reaction.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Whittle, Whittle It Down: Summarizing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Un(re)solved: Frontline: Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Un(re)solved tells the stories of lives cut short and examines a federal effort to investigate more than 150 cold cases that date back to the civil rights era. Learn about and speak the names of the many people whose lives were lost...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of prompts to use when putting students into cooperative groups. Students will be grouped via a Jigsaw activity with core academic area questions.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Bored Bright Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for differentiating lessons. Teaches will learn about the jigsaw method that will help in facilitating enrichment opportunities for students who are bored.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual bingo. The bingo game examines food and fruit while learners look for a match.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: The Library

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar object collections with rich...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: Mystery Match

For Students 1st - 8th
I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills to complete the interactive matching game. The sample match gives learners a clue to whether the match is by association,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: Puzzler

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills to complete the interactive puzzle. Learners connect the shapes to solve the secret puzzle.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: City

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I SPY activities consists of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar-object collections with rich...
Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy: The View From Duck Pond Inn

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar-object collections with rich...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Polar Discovery: Arctic Seafloor Expedition: July 1 Aug. 10, 2007

For Students 9th - 10th
This polar expedition to study the Arctic seafloor took place in 2007, but you can still enjoy following the footsteps of these scientists. The goal of the expedition was to see if there were active hydrothermal vents on the ocean...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Polar Discovery: The Greenland Glacier Expedition: July 7 July 24, 2008

For Students 9th - 10th
This polar expedition took place in 2008, but you can still experience the thrill of following these scientists as they engage in research studying the changes in Greenland's ice sheet. Meet the research team and learn about the...
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University of Iowa

Ui: Sociological Theories of Deviance: Definitions and Considerations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars participate in a jigsaw activity to learn about the major theories of social deviance - anomie theory, control, differential association, and labeling. They then examine the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 while...
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NASA

Dawn Mission: Dawn Classrooms: The History and Discovery of Asteroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student groups explore scientific breakthroughs and the development of technologies that eventually led to asteroid discovery aboard the Dawn space mission. Learning module components include jigsaw reading, model building, math...
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BBC

Bb Ci Space: Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a journey through the solar system with this interactive guide. Includes planetary history, "travel information," "tourist highlights," and video clips. Games and quizzes include a Solar System jigsaw that prompts the student to...
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Technology Student

Technology Student: Power Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes and illustrates the safe use of power tools commonly used in construction.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

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