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Activity
Ed Change

Knowing the Community: Sharing Activity

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students begin to build community in the classroom by participating in a sharing activity.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Problem-Solving

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students help solve real-life classroom problems. In this problem solving activity, the class sits down as a whole and discusses possible solutions to real problems that they face as a class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

BEE a Part of Our Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars reflect how to form a respectful classroom community. In this communities lesson, students construct a "community web" of positive comments and predict what happens to the web when negative comments are made. Young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Classroom Is a Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss how their classroom is a community. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students discuss the concept of philanthropy and how trust, sharing, and good deeds create a classroom community.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Opening the Door for Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan explores opportunities to build connections and community within the classroom based on shared favorite texts. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to write shared acrostic poems in order to build classroom community. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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Article
Other

Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Integrating Speaking and Listening Ccss

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Integrating speaking and listening builds a positive classroom community with less bullying, increased self-confidence, and greater independence, along with the ability to work with all students. This article gives ideas for projects or...