+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Guest Speaker Preparation: A Cooperative Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Are you planning to have a guest speaker talk to your class? Prepare in advance and help your class transform into an engaged and thoughtful audience. Before the visit, young writers work cooperatively to brainstorm what they want to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooperative Learning Duties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers learn how to be held accountable while working in groups. In this accountability lesson plan, students complete an assignment in groups and everyone has a role to be held accountable for.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Concrete Research

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore concrete. In this physical science and computer research instructional activity, students work in groups to answer specific  questions about concrete. Each group of students completes a different worksheet with a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Running a Student Cooperative

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson plan, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Young scholars use funds raised from the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooperative Learning, Sci., Tech., Lang

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research, write, edit, revise and present a paragraph, using word processor, about animal of their choice, including description, where animal lives, what it eats, its habits, e.g. is it endangered, migration, hibernation,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Archeology Lesson; Making Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover what an archeologist is and make inferences about societies and cultures based on artifacts.  In this archeology activity, students complete an array of captivating activities, guessing about what an artifact is and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reaching English Language Learners Through Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students in ESL, ELL take part in small groups according to their language proficiency skills and to determine how to problem solve with a language barrier.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Revive Reviews With Student-Created Study Guides

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners work cooperatively in small groups to practice note-taking and outlining skills which are applied as student create unit Study Guides for their classmates. They demonstrate critical thinking skills as they decide the most...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering Japan Through Cooperative Research

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Search a variety of sources to create a multimedia or book project about Japan. Learners use the independent investigation method to plan and conduct research about Japan. They use the information they discover to create a computer book...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooperative Learning Groups Cooperate

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students apply Bloom's Taxonomy to reading selections. They prepare questions for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy and exchange them with other groups to answer. They answer another group's questions and report to one another.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Weighing the Elephant"

For Teachers K - 12th
Can your class solve the problem presented in the Chinese folktale, "Weighing the Elephant?" Read your class the description before having them attempt to solve the problem. After they've come up with an answer (or attempted to!), finish...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cross-Curricular Games

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars participate in exploring and examining several cross-curricular, hands-on games that encourage active learning and exercise at the same time. They assess games like Freeze Tag, Parts of Speech games and a healthy heart...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Happy Holidays

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create holiday story while working in cooperative learning groups, using Chris Van Allsburg's Polar Express as a writing prompt.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simulated Road Trip

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read the book, DEAR MR. HENSHAW. They implement problem solving strategies and cooperative learning to complete a simulated road trip. Students will use the Internet as a guide to help them complete the road trip.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooperative Group Spelling Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Partners or groups work together to practice the correct spelling of words. They speed-cut letters from print sources and arrange them into correctly spelled words from their lists. Newspapers are suggested, but magazines might result in...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Project Assessing the Need

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson plan, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Middle schoolers contact local...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roll the Tape! Roll the Tape!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students use iMovie to create a video highlighting their middle school in order to share with incoming students.
+
Lesson Plan
Odyssey of the Mind

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Performing Arts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The classical arts have made a lasting impact on our society and your advanced learners get to find out why. The activity starts as the children create a list of the arts found in society, they discuss how these art forms impact their...
+
Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

HOT Questions: Creating Meaningful Questions

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Scholars examine a list of questions and sort them into corresponding groups based on similarities. A gallery walk allows peers to see how their peers sorted questions and leave notes. Costa's Level of Questions is the topic of a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jeffrey and the Sloth

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students listen to the story Jeffrey and the Sloth and relate the story to how it feels to have writer's block. In this Jeffrey and the Sloth lesson plan, students use this book to inspire their creative writing process. Students create...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Curated OER

Who Works at Our School?

For Teachers K - 8th
Young interviewers will learn more about the school staff by asking them questions and creating a bulletin board display. They will learn how to make thoughtful interview questions, conduct professional interviews, and organize...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learn about mysteries with your readers. They will investigate plot, basic elements of mystery, famous characters, and become familiar with genre vocabulary. Bring in props and mystery books to begin and then have learners create story...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Narrative Writing Lesson

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders experience the stages of process writing, work cooperatively, to critique and to incorporate software tools to enhance writing and problem solving skills.

Other popular searches