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A POSITIVELY NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in cooperative learning groups to discover how Gauss's law applies to conductors and dielectric materials. They use an electroscope to detect electrostatic charge and determine location of charges during static charge.
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What State????

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the United States. They research not only the state they live in, but the other 49 states. This webquest gives them an exciting way to study about our 50 states through cooperative learning, library research, and use of...
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Rolling in Dough

For Teachers K - 2nd
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.
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Roping Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore with quadrilaterals.  In this roping quadrilaterals instructional activity, students work in cooperative groups to play the game, "Question, please!" in order to identify, describe, compare and classify...
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify good nutrition. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students learn the basics of good nutrition, identify the six basic food groups, state the effects of the food on the human body, and learn nutritional information while...
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Invading the enemy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a physical outdoor activity in order to develop individual and group trust. In this interpersonal relationship lesson, students play attempt to find hidden objects in the dark. High schoolers must trust...
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Group Headdresses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create a headdress design. In this visual arts lesson, students work cooperatively in a group and create a headdress design. Learners are encouraged to use the conceptual framework of philanthropy while working as a team to...
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Daily Journal

For Students 4th - 11th
In this daily journal activity, students record the tasks completed during a cooperative learning activity and record the inventory of equipment used.
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Folktales and Ecology: Animals and Humans in Cooperation and Conflict

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Interactive Activities to Introduce Teamwork Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduce teens to the teamwork skills and habits of mind they need to be successful in 21st century classrooms and in the workplace with the activities based on Sean Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
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Dragon's Jewels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game about dragons and jewels to learn cooperation, coordination, communication, and to have fun. In this dragons and jewels lesson plan, one group of knights guard the jewels, and one group of dragons try to get the jewels.
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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....
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Roll the Tape! Roll the Tape!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students use iMovie to create a video highlighting their middle school in order to share with incoming students.
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THE FOODS WE EAT

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss the five food groups and the seven basic nutrients. They decorate Food We Eat booklet pages with pictures of foods found on background, rubber stamp and animation tools in KidPix. (Booklet has a page for each food group.)
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We the Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students design and create informational books regarding nonprofit agencies and philanthropists in their community.
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Money for Food

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify low cost, nutritious foods from each of the food groups. In this low cost nutrition lesson, students use the handout "Saving Money on Foods from MyPyramid" and work in groups to study grocery store ads to find foods in...
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Why Should I Do Philanthropy?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students consider the benefits of philanthropy as well as noting opposing viewpoints.
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Project Assessing the Need

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Learners contact local agencies to conduct a...
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Digging Into Science: Excavation Procedure

For Students 5th - 10th
In this excavation procedure instructional activity, learners determine the roles of group members for an excavation of a sample box containing buried bones. They complete 9 short answer questions before beginning the excavation.
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The Alphabet Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students participate in a game that promotes group unity while spelling words with letter cards.  In this teamwork lesson, students have to work together to win the game, but may find it hard to do so without making a lot of...
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South Carolina Voices: Lessons From the Holocaust

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore World History by researching the Holocaust. In 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...
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THE EMBRYO GAME

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop a game similar to BINGO. They compare the reproduction and embryo development of different organisms while initiating group and cooperative learning. They constuct cards from vocabulary words.
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Problem-Based Learning With Chinese Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students form small, cooperative learning groups, research a major Chinese dynasty and present their findings to the classroom in this multi-day lesson adaptable to many different age levels.
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Other kinds of groups- part 4 of 5

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students compare and contrast characteristics of groups. Students create graphs using various symbols of different groups. Students make maps of their neighborhood 'groups'.