Teamwork requires you to cooperate with other people. Learn how to be cooperative and work in group settings at home and at school. This website includes activity ideas through which young students can practice their teamwork skills with...

In this lesson plan, learners practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this lesson plan.

Discover how to create a cooperative and collaborative learning environment in your classroom. This site features a definition for this type of learning strategy and ways to implement it in your classroom.

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...

Landmines kills thousands every year in countries around the world. Some of the topics on this site include the history of landmines, the threat they present in over sixty countries worldwide, the damage they do,risk reduction education,...

Through "team bowling," students not only practice their cooperative learning skills but also practice rolling and catching. At this website, learn how to plan team bowling as a gym-class activity. Included are ideas for varying the...

Introduce children to bowling in this gym-class activity. Young pupils practice rolling a ball with partners and then practice rolling a ball toward specific targets.

Site provides interactive activities to use in the classroom to test one's reflexes. Also includes more reaction time experiments as well as links to more fun activities.

Site provides fun activities for kids to do in the classroom to help them better understand the sense of smell.

This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...

Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.

One of the most important types of creative activity for young children is creative play. This article discusses the benefits of creative play and other ways to foster creativity in your classroom.

Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teacher's guide provides discussion ideas and activities that that connect to...

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.

A lesson plan to help students interact with each other. The focus is on special education, but could be used productively in any elementary classroom.

In this lesson plan students are "given one hour to solve a problem that a has caused a huge drop in sales" for a clock company. All clocks are five minutes slow. Because of this, they must find a way to put the clock back on time...

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...

At this site from the American Forum for Global Education, students learn how to plan a park through this step-by-step, hands-on activity that teaches elementary economic lessons. Not only will students plan, but they will learn how to...

A teacher lesson plan which includes a station lab; students navigate through four stations with separate activities on magnetic principles. Easily adaptable as a student project.

In this instructional activity, the students 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...

The students will be reviewing the metric system in a cooperative group activity and then using the review and applying it to an assessment.

Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.

An interesting way for students to dissect current events in the classroom. This lesson plan has students look at bias and develop critical thinking skills in order to digest the news media.

Young scholars able to throw and catch, and who are able to shoot and pass a basketball are ready to play "Zoo Parade Day." This activity requires students to work in different "centers" or stations throughout the gym and to demonstrate...