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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Individual Tasks

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of prompts to use when putting students into cooperative groups. Students will be grouped via a Jigsaw activity with core academic area questions.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: A Language Arts Grammar Jigsaw

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This site explains how to engage students using the Jigsaw method for grammar study.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Achieving Group Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. Students will learn communication skills in ethnically and culturally diverse groups.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Oranges How Many Sections Are Inside?

For Teachers K - 1st
In this biology investigation students will be asked to attempt to determine how many sections exist in an orange without having peeled it. Students will work in small cooperative groups. Each group will be able to use a small magnifying...
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PBS

Pbs: Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working in cooperative groups, your young scholars will learn how jazz musicians expressed the Civil Rights era in their music. This lesson focuses on the Civil Rights movement in Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, they will learn to about the...
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CPALMS

Ice Cream Truck Favorites

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will determining the top three flavors of ice cream bars that an ice cream truck should serve. Students must work in cooperative groups as they work to...
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CPALMS

Moving on Up

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Collaborative Learning: Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive site presents the concept of collaborative learning, which encourages active student participation in the learning process. There are five sections: Stories (from teachers describing how they implemented collaborative...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Title and Task Tent Cards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient strategy for the conducting of literature circles. Downloadable tent cards are provided for the following literature circle member roles: recorder, facilitator, summarizer, and...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Atozteacherstuff: Season Fairies Get Sacked

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, students work in groups as "Season fairies," and write poems as to why their particular season is needed and valued. Groups then present to the class.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a culmination activity used after students 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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Solving Multi Step Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will work cooperatively to solve multi-step equations online. The program will allow them to solve the equations and then check their answers. Students lacking the needed skills to complete this assignment will...
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Success Link

Success Link: Flying Into Spring

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Here are two lesson plans that apply geometric concepts to design objects. The first involves students as a group following step by step instructions on making a kite. After the review of geometry vocabulary, in cooperative groups the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A three-part standards-based lesson in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups while scaffolding...
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Environmental Education: Reading Poetry Fluently

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student groups prepare and present a reading of the poem "Our Big Home: An Earth Poem." Adding impact to the cooperative group work, students use a variety of word study strategies to more deeply understand its vocabulary and the message...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity covers chiral molecules, which are important in carbohydrate and protein chemistry. Understanding the difference in their structures helps with understanding the different biochemical properties of molecules...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Fast Can You Go?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners will experience force and speed by constructing model cars in cooperative groups. The students will explore ways to move their cars at different speeds. Each group will do a PhotoStory describing their cars.This lesson plan was...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: If Earth No Longer Existed. . .

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will work in cooperative groups to research characteristics of each of the planets in our solar system. Students will design a travel brochure outlining the characteristics of each planet. Each group will make an oral...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Levers:relationship of Force of Effort & Resistance Fulcrum Placement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationship between the two forces and the location of the fulcrum in a first class lever. Students work in cooperative groups of approximately three to make observations that they can then generate a formula...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson learners create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
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PBS

Pbs: About All You Can Eat: A Feast at Plimouth Plantation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson in the culinary delicacies of the Plymouth Plantation in 1627. For this integrated lesson, students examine the history of foods eaten during this colonial era and prepare an actual meal based on what they have learned. This...

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