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Team Building: A Complete Guide
Lots of info here! Everything from the definition of the word to graphics illustrating how to communicate within the team!
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Kim's Korner: Icebreakers and Energizers
This site discusses how icebreakers and energizers can be used in a variety of ways. They can be used for beginning of the year activities, energizers for breaks during standardized tests, team building activities, etc. They work for...
TryEngineering
Ieee: Try Engineering: Build Your Own Robot Arm
Students design and build a working robotic arm from a set of everyday items with a goal of having the arm be able to pick up a Styrofoam cup. Working in teams of three or four students, the students explore effective teamwork skills...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental Interactions
In this activity, students create a "web" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an environment is and to also...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Team Up!
Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. They develop their observing, thinking, writing and teamwork skills by working on a group art project and reporting about it. They learn about...
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Teach Engineering: For Those Back Home
Students review information learned during the past five lessons and activities of the Introduction to Engineering unit. Working in teams, they create flyers and short quizzes about various types of engineering to share with the class...
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Teach Engineering: The Crash Scene
Fifth graders are introduced to the (hypothetical) scenario in which they are a team of EnviroTech engineers returning to the U.S. from a conference in Brasilia, Brazil. When their plane crashes deep in the Amazon forest, they work in...
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Teamwork
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Teamwork."
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Conference Board of Canada: Employability Skills 2000+
This brochure provides a single-page list of skills and traits that will prepare you for the world of work in the 21st century. The list is divided into three categories: Fundamental Skills, Personal Management Skills, and Teamwork...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leaders of Our School
For this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
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Study International: Why Solving the World's Problems Needs a Multi Disciplinary Approach
This article is directed at students and encourages them to look at complex problems with an interdisciplinary mindset. It provides some examples of real-world problems that were solved with multidisciplinary teamwork. (Published Sept....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Student Reporting Labs Collection
Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Design a Paper Car: Exploring the Scientific Method
An engineering design project used to help young scholars practice teamwork and to give them an opportunity to experience engineering practices, such as teamwork and problem-solving.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Cross Disciplinary Proficiencies: American Diploma Project Benchmarks
Students must graduate from high school with not only a firm foundation in mathematics and English, but also with the ability to approach with confidence new and unfamiliar tasks and challenges in college, the workplace and life....
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Getting Your Bearings
Students learn about teamwork and problem solving in this lesson plan that focuses on friction and how ball bearings are used to reduce it.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Football Team [Pdf]
"The Football Team" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the goals of a school football team including learning leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Activities for Leadership Workshops
Twelve activities for use in leadership training, aimed to develop teamwork and problem solving. Each activity lists objectives and clear instructions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I've Got Issues!
This lesson will introduce students to environmental issues. Students will recognize environmental opinions and perspective, which will help them define themselves and others as either preservationists or conservationists. Students also...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering Design Process
This visual is a representation of engineering design process which includes teamwork and design. Students will be able to follow the steps of the design process to strengthen their understanding of open-ended design and emphasize...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in a Penny?
In this lesson, students work cooperatively to list all the details of a penny. The lesson demonstrates the importance cooperation and teamwork as well as attention to detail.
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United States Office of Personnel Management: Teams
A collection of resources on how to enhance and appraise a team's performance.
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Curriculum Rationale
Why are the arts important in education? This article explains why arts education is important to helping develop 21st century skills in todays students.
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Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric
This rubric is a means of restricting the subjective element in an assessment process of a Socratic dialogue, which inevitably has a subjective aspect. It suggests that students should be scored on the basis on the teacher's...