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The Dream Flag Project
This creative and collaborative project is centered around the poetry of Langston Hughes, and incorporates art, multi-cultural ideas, and student performance. The site is full of examples, information, lessons and explanation.
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Tech4 Learning: Recipes4 Success
If you're interested in developing project-based learning for your class, Tech4Learning provides tools for facilitating those projects and instruction in how to create and manage them. Free resources available, as well as resources by...
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Tom Wujec: The Marshmallow Challenge
Collaborative exercise involving marshmallows, spaghetti, tape, and string can start events and classes off in a creative frame of mind.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this lesson which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
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Storm Board
Storm Board is an online brainstorming tool. Users can work collaboratively to put 'sticky notes' on a bulletin board, then organize them and assign them colours. Additional suggestions are offered from Edistorm based on what you post....
Edutopia
Edutopia: Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits of Working Together
Article discusses how cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use verbal cues in the form of yes/no questions to guess an item inside a bag. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Actions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use action cues while playing a game of Charades. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Independent practice worksheets are...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Revising
Lesson in which students engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up lesson plan to the "prewriting and drafting" lesson plan.
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Constructing Critical Literacy Practices Through Technology Tools and Inquiry
This journal article examines how the use of technology has helped to promote critical thinking and creativity. The article includes examples specifically focused on Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."
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Global Kids Connect: Teamwork [Pdf]
Global Kids Connect provides this lesson on the value of teamwork and the importance of understanding other cultures, specifically that of Afghanistan. This lesson can be used in a Social Studies, Language Arts, or Fine Arts classroom as...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 40: Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project
Rock music can serve as a way to increase student interest in the curriculum, and a way to help students make sense of who they are and what their place is in the world, so asking students to bring in their own music to teach each other...
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Pare: Designing Scoring Rubrics for Your Classroom
What do you know about designing scoring rubrics for your classroom? This site features an article that details how and when to use rubrics in the assessment process. It also gives examples of rubrics used in classrooms.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Share Point Resources
Review this guide to learn more about this popular business collaboration tool.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: One Drive and Office Online
Use this tutorial to better understand these two popular Microsoft programs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collaborate
Work together with students to complete a puzzle or make a mural arund
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Cooperate
Teach your children some cooperative games to play with friends, in this activity from Arthur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Bowling
Through this fun bowling activity, children hone counting and gross motor skills. They also explore how to respond if they spill something.
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In Time: Teaching Students Cooperative Skills
This article discusses a series of steps that can be used to teach and promote cooperative skills. Some prompts that can be used to stimulate discussion or assess informally are listed towards the bottom of the page.
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University of Wisconsin Stout: Wiki Rubric
A rubric that can be used for assessing students' contributions to a wiki.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Crazy Pizza
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson engages students with working in teams to determine the best unique pizza topping to add to a restaurant menu. Students will use criteria such as taste, cost, and nutrition to make their...