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Classroom Compass: Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Get background about various ways to build cooperative learning into your curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics courses. Includes a bibliography and list of other resources.
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Alex: Build a City on Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be split into small, cooperative groups and build a city following specific guidelines. The students will learn how a city is constructed with angles, intersections, parallel, intersecting, and transversal streets. They...
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Alex: Get It Straight Mr. Decimal!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Students will review addition and subtraction of decimals with a hands-on, cooperative small group experience. They will be placed in small groups and solve problems on individual whiteboards. This lesson plan was created as a result of...
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Alex: What's the Matter: A Sinker or Floater?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will explore matter that sinks or floats when submerged in water and that matter is categorized as either a sinker or a floater. Students will work actively in small, cooperative learning groups as well as gather in a whole...
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Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This lesson plan is used early in the Chemistry course. The students love it....
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Alex: The Mean, Median, and Mode Chain Gang

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Cooperative learning groups and chain links are used to find the mean, median, and mode. A Science NetLinks lesson is linked for further real-life application in the world of baseball (optional). This lesson plan was created as a result...
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Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson introduces the student to the concept of probability. Young scholars will explore the meaning of theoretical and experimental probability by viewing interactive websites. A lab activity will be performed using cooperative...
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Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets

For Teachers 5th - 6th
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
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Alex: I Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, students will figure out how many different combinations of ice cream flavors and cones they can make. Students will work cooperatively to make the different combinations. They will use various materials to actually make...