This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.

Full-text transcript of Abraham Lincoln's address to the Cooper Union Institute, delivered in February 1860 and largely credited as the speech that won Lincoln the presidency.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a peer evaluation form. This reproducible form has nine areas for which peers will assess via a continuum of their opinions.

A summary of the agreements created by the United Nations in the summer of 1944 concerning foreign trade and banking.

Students journal their thoughts and responses to the questions associated with the grand challenge question presented in the associated lesson. For the Generate Ideas" step, they answer the questions: "What are your initial ideas about...

The information, documents and lessons relating to the United States vs. Thomas Cooper case. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

In this lesson plan, students will write a cooperative class story, using brainstorming and editing skills. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.

Teach students "Cooperative handball," and have them practice working with others. This website includes the rules to "Cooperative handball," as well as suggestions for forming teams and for adapting the sport for students with...

Teach you students "Sneak attack," and enforce the importance of cooperation while playing this game. Game requires simple equiptment as well as students' knowledge of the terms "Offense," and "Defense."

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient grouping strategy. Teachers will learn to motivate students with the "Pick a Card, Any Card" strategy. It explains how to use it to select parts for reading a play in class.

Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson introduces rules...

At the end of this lesson, young scholars will be able to identify and create diagrams associated with informational text. Included is a link to an eSpark video on diagrams, rules for group work, multiple examples of diagrams, and a...

This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...

This resource provides a comprehensive look at the jigsaw technique. This teaching technique is known to be one the most popular cooperative learning strategies.

In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...

Concept to Classroom is a free series of award-winning professional development workshops covering important and timely topics in education such as: after-school programs, cooperative and collaborative learning, inquiry-based learning,...

There are five teaching units on peace education on this site, ranging for ages 8 to 14+. Topics cover ecological awareness, tolerance, social justice, global citizenship, etc. There are many links in the resource area for United Nations...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators and students will enjoy visiting the JASON Project, a NASA and National Geographic cooperation which works to provide accurate and intriguing scientific knowledge for students.

In this lesson, students are divided into teams to use their vocabulary words in a cooperative story. Each student in the team contributes a sentence with a vocabulary word in it until all the words are included. Teams then share their...

Step by step guidelines explaining how to use seven different Jigsaw Activities in the classroom.

Discover ways to share items with a group in a way that is fair to all. Discuss the importance of sharing.

In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...

Students dive down deep as they experience a hands-on activity and build a model of a submersible. Lesson plan includes a web connection, a teaching guide, extensions to learning as well as curriculum links and national science...