SEDL
Classroom Compass: Cooperative Learning
Get background about various ways to build cooperative learning into your curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics courses. Includes a bibliography and list of other resources.
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My Science Site
My Science Site: World of Colours [Pdf]
This resource presents a cooperative learning activity where students can enhance their knowledge of light diffraction. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Balloon Powered Race Cars
An idea developed by a physical science teacher who applied Newton's Laws of Motion in creating a balloon powered race car. Find simple objective, materials, rules, and procedures.
Other
National Geographic: Jason Learning
[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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle
This is a culmination activity used after learners have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Circles of Life
This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The students will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cosmic Measurements
In this lesson, learners will use hands on inquiry in cooperative learning groups to understand, develop and analyze common measurements used by astronomers. Students will use common objects such as straws, twizzlers, or toothpicks to...
Other
Marian Koshland Science Museum: Bird Flu Today Public Awareness Campaign
With this WebQuest, high school or undergraduate students make recommendations to the public or policy makers about how Americans should handle the potential arrival of an avian influenza epidemic. How will your students decide to handle...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Australia Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about animals that live in Australia. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and science and geography vocabulary,...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Rocks and Minerals Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Solar System Find It! Quiz
This Find It! quiz from Enchanted Learning encourages deductive reasoning, dictionary use, and vocabulary building. Used as a small group activity, it can promote cooperative learning.
My Science Site
My Science Site: What Drops Faster? [Pdf]
This resource provides a simple science activity teachers can use to teach gravity and mass. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute and Science Museum: Seeing
Take a look at this sight and all of the activities it has to offer. Has great activities to use in the classroom as well as world wide web links.
Other
Rubi Star: Create Rubrics for Your Project Based Learning
RubiStar is a tool that helps teachers develop rubrics. After students have done the project and the rubric has been used to grade it, you can enter the data into RubiStar to determine which items are problematic for the class as well.
My Science Site
Forces and Motion [Pdf]
This resource provides reproducibles that aide in student learning of force and motion. Also offers hands-on and cooperative learning activity ideas as well as an ESL/ELD activity. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
My Science Site
Experiments With Levers [Pdf]
This resource details a cooperative learning activity on experimenting with levers. Offers eight different tests students can engage in. A student data sheet is also provided for students to record their findings. This resource is in PDF...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Mean, Median, and Mode Chain Gang
Cooperative learning groups and chain links are used to find the mean, median, and mode. A Science NetLinks lesson is linked for further real-life application in the world of baseball (optional). This lesson plan was created as a result...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This instructional activity is used early in the Chemistry course. The students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Light Travels
In this lesson, the learners will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?
The students will be afforded opportunities to actively explore ordering numbers (from least to greatest and greatest to least). The students will engage in a whole group and cooperative learning group setting to explore ordering whole...
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Find the Frog
"Find the Frog" is an ESL cooperative learning lesson plan in which students will learn about frogs, camouflage, and spatial relationships. TESOL standards are included. It features downloads and resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?
This instructional activity introduces the student to the concept of probability. Students will explore the meaning of theoretical and experimental probability by viewing interactive websites. A lab activity will be performed using...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Primary Sources
This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based instructional activity that focuses on critical thinking. Students are introduced to the true story of the first Thanksgiving with the reading of a NCSS Notable Trade Book Thanksgiving: The True...