This resource provides a comprehensive look at the jigsaw technique. This teaching technique is known to be one the most popular cooperative learning strategies.

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...

Assemble jigsaw puzzles of items in nature, engineering, math, and art that display symmetry. You can customize a puzzle's rows, columns, and piece shape to make the jigsaw challenging or simple.

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....

In this in-depth jigsaw activity, students investigate the role bald eagles play in the ecosystem, why they were listed as endangered, the effects of DDT on eagles, and the effects of lead on eagles. Furthermore, students will then graph...

This strategy helps learners refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.

Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...

Un(re)solved tells the stories of lives cut short and examines a federal effort to investigate more than 150 cold cases that date back to the civil rights era. Learn about and speak the names of the many people whose lives were lost...

I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual bingo. The bingo game examines food and fruit while learners look for a match.

I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar object collections with rich...

I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills to complete the interactive matching game. The sample match gives learners a clue to whether the match is by association,...

I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills to complete the interactive puzzle. Learners connect the shapes to solve the secret puzzle.

I SPY activities consists of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem-solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar-object collections with rich...

I SPY activities consist of software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. Students use problem solving skills when playing the visual brain-teasing puzzle. The resource combines photographs of familiar-object collections with rich...

In this lesson, students participate in a jigsaw activity to learn about the major theories of social deviance - anomie theory, control, differential association, and labeling. They then examine the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 while applying...

Student groups explore scientific breakthroughs and the development of technologies that eventually led to asteroid discovery aboard the Dawn space mission. Learning module components include jigsaw reading, model building, math...

This site describes and illustrates the safe use of power tools commonly used in construction.

This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education describes a classroom exercise based on four world maps containing earthquake, volcano, topographical and seafloor age data. Students participate in this exercise by using a "jigsaw"...

A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help students discover the processes that occur at plate tectonic boundaries. The lesson is based on the jigsaw concept, mixing the students to work in different groups during...

Find great activities for Valentine's Day like coloring pages, printables for cards, crafts, origami, puzzles, recipes, games, and jigsaws.

Try your hand at these interactive jigsaw puzzles while studying cell biology. Put together images of animal and plant cells, red blood cells, streptococcus, and naphthalene.

In jigsaw groups, students construct the Earth's tectonic plates using geologic maps. Skills such as careful observation, presentation, and synthesis are used to create a map that shows the type and location the plates.

This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...

Interactive game in which players assemble different denominations of currency from jigsaw puzzle pieces.