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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Cooperate
Teach your children some cooperative games to play with friends, in this activity from Arthur.
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A Workshop on Inquiry Based Learning Using the Internet
This site is a workshop on inquiry-based learning using the Internet.
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Sharing
There will be times in life when everyone needs to share. By having caring adults around who can help young children learn that sharing is one way to build friendships, children can learn that sharing with friends (who have become...
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Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom
The "official web site of the jigsaw classroom",- a cooperative learning technique which was developed by Elliot Aronson. The jigsaw approach is considered to promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Collaborative Strategic Reading Learning Logs
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a technique that teaches students to work cooperatively on a reading assignment to promote better comprehension. CSR learning logs are used to help students keep track of learning during the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Art Pals: Donkey Hodie
Donkey Hodie and her pals are making art projects from materials found around Someplace Else. As they play and create their art projects, children practice collaboration, cooperation and perspective-taking. In the classroom, teachers can...
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Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Team Efforts
Try these cooperative games to explore the benefits of teamwork with students.
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Rubi Star: Create Rubrics for Your Project Based Learning
RubiStar is a tool that helps teachers develop rubrics. After students have done the project and the rubric has been used to grade it, you can enter the data into RubiStar to determine which items are problematic for the class as well.
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Pbs: America Responds Classroom Resources
Online PBS lesson plan to help students understand world conflict and cooperation and the rights of people all over the world. Through this lesson, students learn how to respond to world conflict, such as September 11.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collaborate
Work together with students to complete a puzzle or make a mural arund
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Roulette: Walmart Sells Everything!!!
As a part of the study of Economics, the students will cooperatively write an essay using terms associated with the basics of economics. In cooperative learning groups of four students will use a word list and prior knowledge to...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Partner Reading
Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. This strategy is often used as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Need for Speed
After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, learners explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the motion of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is It Really That Big?
Just how tall is that object? In this lesson, students will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative learning groups will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Bounces Best?
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Students will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30 seconds....
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Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students
The author of this article argues that character development must be taught in schools and that teachers must take steps to make sure students understand what perseverance, determination, empathy, responsibility, respect, and caring are....
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur: Supermarket Scavenger Hunt
This page features an alphabet scavenger hunt activity for young learners. Using markers, paper and other materials, students will have an opportunity to work on an alphabetical shopping list.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Group Endeavors
Show students that some of the best games are those in which everyone works together.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Pair Share
Think-Pair-Share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or...