Students apply Team Games Tournaments, a cooperative studying strategy developed at Johns Hopkins University. They utilize the games as an assessment alternative and/or as a review technique.

Students role play, persuading and staying neutral during arguments. In this viewpoint lesson, students examine the viewpoints of soldiers in the Spanish-American War and role play. After a discussion, some students try to persuade the...

In this characterization instructional activity, students identify the traits harbored by a character in a work of literature.  Students work cooperatively to locate proof that the character exhibits these traits and then vote on...

Story elements such as conflict, character analysis, resolution, and moral are discussed and charted as elementary children read folktales involving animals. An element of science is also introduced as learners discover what a keystone...

After reading Chicken Soup with Rice, by Maurice Sendak, incorporate some of these great extension activities into your lesson plan. Ideas include focusing on knowing the months of the year, or studying the illustrations and how...

Not only do future engineers learn the difference between accuracy and precision, they also get some hands-on experience using different measuring tools. 

Students work in teams, participate in the "Lifeboat Game." Discussion following the game helps students process the activity to realize teamwork skills they used to facilitate meeting their game goal. Students identify and relate the...

Learners move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. In this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...

Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style....

Students make play dough. In this cooperation lesson, students practice working together in a group. Students work in small groups to make play dough. They discuss how they cooperated and how it was beneficial to completing the project.

Students study how to better their cohesion and communication skills.  In this investigative lesson students work in teams and learn how to communicate better as they help to solve problems and communicate their needs. 

Sixth graders use prior knowledge to create a tri-fold study guide using Microsoft Publisher (if available). They include real world examples that show balanced and unbalanced forces, kinetic and potential energy, and vocabulary. The...

Students solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.

Students learn soccer skills and how to assess progress.

Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students consider the benefits of philanthropy as well as noting opposing viewpoints.

Students identify inclusive procedures for activities. In this social skills lesson, students perform skits that illustrate inappropriate as well as appropriate classroom behavior.

Students improve their language skills through 11 activities. In this language skills lesson, students listen to picture books, answer questions about elements of a story, enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills, use 5 W questions,...

Students determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning instructional activity, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Students contact local agencies...

Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students use iMovie to create a video highlighting their middle school in order to share with incoming students.

Students explore World History by researching the Holocaust. For this Nazi Germany lesson, students identify the ghettos and death camps that many Jewish civilians were sent to in order to be controlled and later killed. Students...

Students examine Shakespearean language. In this word study lesson, students investigate the meaning of words that Shakespeare invented. Students draw and pantomime with the words prior to writing short stories that feature Shakespeare's...

Elementary schoolers take part in a very good instructional activity which has them watch video, conduct experiments, complete hands-on activities, and work in cooperative groups. The educationally-rich activities are clearly-explained,...

Upper elementary and middle school learners engage in this awesome lesson plan on the Civil War. In it, they watch streamed video, perform Internet research, engage in hands-on activities, and use their geography skills to locate...

An excellent series of five lessons on China awaits you and your young geographers. In these lessons, learners engage in hands-on activities, watch streamed video, access websites, and complete activities in cooperative groups in order...