Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Individual Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides effective time management strategies for cooperative groups. Students will work on time management and an aid to with group engagement. SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Metric and Time Review and Quiz
The students will be reviewing the metric system in a cooperative group activity and then using the review and applying it to an assessment.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Prime Time Primates: Finger Food
Research two species of primates, the lemur and the aye-aye, to discover their survival strategies and adaptive behaviors. Select another primate species to investigate and work in a cooperative group to gather information from many...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Motivating Students: Pick a Card, Any Card
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.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animals as Pets: Everything You Need to Know
Choosing pets and caring for them appropriately is important for children. Many times children choose a pet without knowing the responsibility that is involved in pet care. In this instructional activity the students will work in pairs...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Elves Go on Strike!
Learners will use their knowledge of elapsed time to determine if certain elves should receive a bonus. They will work cooperatively with groups to calculate elapsed time and present and justify their findings to their classmates.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Games That Teach Sharing
Discover ways to share items with a group in a way that is fair to all. Discuss the importance of sharing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Need for Speed
After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, students explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the motion of...