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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Football Team [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"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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Article
Other

Curriculum Rationale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Article
Other

Natures Four Teamwork Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This article takes a look at the nature of what is proposed to be the four teamwork systems. The idea of teamwork is compared to roles within biological teams. Subtopics of this concept are broken out and accompanied by concise...
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Article
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Building a Committed Team

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Action steps that will build successful teams at the school level as well as implementation pitfalls and illustrative cases.
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Activity
Other

What Are Good Leadership Skills: Activities for Leadership Workshops

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Twelve activities for use in leadership training, aimed to develop teamwork and problem solving. Each activity lists objectives and clear instructions.
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Website
Other

Act, Inc.: Work Keys Assessments: Teamwork

For Students 9th - 10th
Take tests online to determine your teamwork abilities in work and professional settings. This website describes 4 levels of teamwork, which expand upon "The traditional 3 Rs of reading, writing, and arithmetic by becoming one of the...
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Other

Mathedpage.org: Algebra Manipulatives: Comparison and History

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses the use of manipulatives in the study of Algebra. The author sees benefits in symbol manipulation to enrich understanding, in geometric interpretation strengthening the connection to other parts of mathematics,...
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Handout
University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Teamwork & Group Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teamwork is an essential component of an engineering curriculum since engineers almost always work in groups. This website contains links that help to explain the concept of teamwork, group work, and study teams. It also includes how to...
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Website
Other

United States Office of Personnel Management: Teams

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources on how to enhance and appraise a team's performance.
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Rubric
Other

Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Design a Paper Car: Exploring the Scientific Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An engineering design project used to help students practice teamwork and to give them an opportunity to experience engineering practices, such as teamwork and problem-solving.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: I've Got Issues!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Graphic
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Design Process

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Kinder Art

Kinder Art: "Live" Paintings (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This art project will teach students about various art styles and allow them to investigate various art historical periods. The site has a lesson plan included.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Building a Bridge

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two friends who work together to build a bridge. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Speedy Shelter (Pdf)

For Students K - 1st
This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Can You Copperplate?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Chemical engineering lesson investigates the processes of chemical plating and electroplating. Teams of students work together to devise a chemical system for plating metal objects with copper, then test and evaluate their findings and...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Radio Reception and Transmission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams of young scholars learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Ets1 1 :Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the engineering design process as they work in teams to design a process and a product to solve the Toxic Popcorn Challenge and save the city.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineered Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Object of this lesson is to learn about the engineering design of musical instruments. Students work in teams to design and build their own "tunable" and unique instrument using everyday materials.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Filtration Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working in teams of "engineers", students learn about filtration systems and how they can remove impurities from drinking water.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Get It Write

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the engineering design process by working in teams to design and build a pen out of everyday materials that can deliver a controlled amount of ink to a sheet of paper.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Build a Big Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a big wheel or Ferris wheel made with pasta, glue, and teabags. The objective of the lesson is to explore how big wheels have been designed...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Conveyor Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a conveyor system made with everyday items than can move pieces of candy 4 feet including a 90 degree turn. The objective of the instructional...