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In Time: Teaching Students Cooperative Skills
This article discusses a series of steps that can be used to teach and promote cooperative skills. Some prompts that can be used to stimulate discussion or assess informally are listed towards the bottom of the page.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Service Learning Project
Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Egg Drop
The instructional activity will explore positive and negative team performance and behaviors.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Trust Me!
Lesson for young scholars to establish trust with one another by passing a beanbag to other students in a circle after first making eye contact. Online metronome is used to set the pace.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is That a Whale?
This lesson plan will increase student knowledge of whale anatomy and habitat while using the Internet for information gathering.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in a Penny?
In this lesson, students work cooperatively to list all the details of a penny. The lesson demonstrates the importance cooperation and teamwork as well as attention to detail.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: What Do You Know? What Do You Ask?
Put together your best team of scientist to figure out if would be possible for humans to inhabit Mars with this activity. Students learn about the interdisciplinary approach to solving a problem.
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Nondestructive Testing (Ndt): Teamwork in the Classroom
This resource explains what teamwork is, why teachers should be interested in it, how it differs from group work, the characteristics of effective teams, and the stages teams go through as they mature.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Maximum Mentos Fountain
Students play the role of engineers as they test, design and build Mentos fountains - a dramatic example of how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy. They are challenged to work together as a class to optimize the design...
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Science Museum: Total Darkness
When the power goes out, it's time for action in our brand new game. Venture into the dark, explore different locations and meet new characters - creating your own unique adventure as you play! Use your science skills to get the power...
Starfall
Starfall: The Top Bunk
This interactive focuses on climbing on the top bunk. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: How Many Systems Do I Belong to Right Now?
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using the concept of belonging to groups, children come to understand the concept of economics as it applies to "People Systems", or interdependence and cooperation.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries
Scholastic.com offers information on how to use the Math Maven's Mysteries to enhance problem-solving skills, partly through class discussion. For the actual mysteries, click on Math Maven Home.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Simple Teamwork Games
Play four games that require teamwork as you work with a partner.
PBS
Pbs: Teach Cooperation With Everyday Items
Work together as a team to complete a puzzle or create a mural. Discuss ways to make the team work effectively.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lego Block Center (Activity)
This instructional activity assists in developing teamwork in kindergarten age children and encourages them to take a look at their local community and its institutions.
Other
Benefits of Music Education
The benefits of music education are numerous. This well written article contains many quotes from various sources as to why music education is essential towards developing skills that will enhance the lives of children.
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U.s. House Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting School Based Music Education
Recognizing that music education develops skills for the 21st century workforce, the U.S. House unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 121 in April, 2007. This resolution supports the need to have music education accessible to...
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The Arts a Lifetime of Learning
Read why Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee believes the arts are vital to our education. Some of the key points of the article are academic, social and civil development, economic development and quality of life.
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Team Building inc.com: The Miracle of Pittron Steel
The writer reviews the work of Wayne Alderson and claims that a person's beliefs can interfere with reaching consensus. The article uses Alderson's technique as a premise for all consensus building.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Group Cohesion: Keeping It All Together: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept of group cohesiveness and the factors which increase or decrease group cohesion. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Group Cohesion: Keeping It All Together."
Virginia Tech
Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking
Included here is a study of collaborative learning versus individual learning. This study provides details of its methodology and its findings.
PE Central
Pe Central: Cooperative Learning: Team Bowling
The activity described at this website allows students to not only practice working with other people but also "Refine the skills of rolling and catching." Read a description of the activity and learn how to assess students' performances...
PE Central
Pe Central: Cooperative Learning: Sneak Attack
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."