This compilation contains several lessons that will help young scholars learn fair methods to resolve conflicts. Other lessons will help students engage in a cooperative task.

"Can a plant grow from just the top of a carrot?" Students will engage in this lesson plan to find out.

Foster curiosity and awareness of the impact cultures have on people and how it affects both those within the culture as well as those outside of the culture through this lesson plan.

"Credit cards are not free money." Just how do credit cards work? This site provides a lesson plan in which students investigate the lure of credit card companies, the pitfalls of credit debt, and the impact of credit debt on our...

For this lesson students work together in small groups to diagram sentences using Tinker Toys for the lines.

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...

Cooperative learning activity in which students will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.

Start with the questions all students ask: How big is the universe, how far away are the planets and stars, how did they form and when, how do they move and why? Build on their natural curiosity. The Smithsonian, in cooperation with...

The dramatic play center is a place students can go to pretend, imagine, and be creative. Students can pretend to be anyone and do anything! This is powerful for our little learners. It is a place that promotes high-level thinking,...