In this module, students will learn to identify the characteristics of effective global collaborators, the importance of respect for others' cultures, and how to apply these skills in a global collaboration. They will examine a global or...

Discover how to create a cooperative and collaborative learning environment in your classroom. This site features a definition for this type of learning strategy and ways to implement it in your classroom.

A comprehensive glossary of terms and acronyms used in particle physics.

Computers and the internet have changed how people work, communicate, and share information, but we need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of sharing online. This tutorial looks at email, video conferencing, online document...

Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.

This lesson discusses the implementation of classroom norms. These norms are inclusive and should transcend to the norms of the school.

Explore the actions and relationships between different levels of government as they figure out what to do in response to COVID-19. This lesson has been adapted for digital and remote learning use and a traditional lesson plan is...

In this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and students work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.

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 will model...

This resource is provided by the Vermont Writing Collaborative. Many examples of student's on-demand opinon writings are included. Students had been prompted to decide which kind of pet is best, a cat or a dog.

A round-robin clay lesson where each student passes their animal to a neighbor and he/she adds to what is there. This is a great way to teach collaboration or teamwork as well as getting your students to loosen up.

Students will work in groups of two or three to produce two pages of a digital scrapbook covering a thematic element from Macbeth. The pages will then be assembled into a visual review of the play's themes and character motivations...

Creating podcasts in the classroom has many educational benefits, including strengthening skills in research, writing, and collaboration - and podcasting is easy to do. This article walks you through the steps of preproduction,...

Before you begin a keypal exchange, read this article about project design.These guidelines, along with the template for writing you own "Call for Collaboration," will help guide you through a successful online learning experience with...

The Silk Road creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning to build a more hopeful world. It presents concerts around the world.

Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for young scholars to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In...

At this site from the American Forum for Global Education, students learn how to plan a park through this step-by-step, hands-on activity that teaches elementary economic lessons. Not only will students plan, but they will learn how to...

This resource presents a lesson plan which instructs students to work in groups of three to examine various pieces of art. They can be a reporter, an art expert, or an art historian, then use the terrific collection of links to do their...

This is an online collaborative project for middle school students from around the globe. The focus of the project is learning about those who find themselves living on the street. The Eleanor Rigby Project will help students examine not...

Students learn about seismology by using a sample seismograph constructed out of common classroom materials. The seismograph creates a seismogram based on vibrations caused by moving a ruler. The students work in groups to represent an...

In collaboration with several newspapers and magazines from the region, Onetz is an online news and information source for Weiden, Amberg, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Umgebung, Germany. Content includes top news for the region and country,...

In collaboration with several newspapers and magazines from the region, Onetz is an online news and information source for Weiden, Amberg, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Umgebung, Germany. Content includes top news for the region and country,...

Collaborative lesson with multimedia resources on Egypt's Revolution in which students use relevant news sources, interactive timeline with video and graphic organizers to learn about events in Egypt over the past three years.

In this activity, students are challenged to design a contraption using simple machines to move a circus elephant into a rail car. After students consider their audience and constraints, they work in groups to brainstorm ideas and select...