Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Collaboration Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is noted. It is clear,...
TES Global
Tes: Digital Participation, Digital Literacy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource shares a 30-page resource about digital literacy and digital participation. This resource specifically deals with issues connected to literature.
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New Tech Network Group Contracts: Sample Group Academic Work Contracts
This resource offers downloadable sample contracts for group academic work. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Partnership for 21st Century Learning
The Partnership website is an excellent place to learn what 21st century skills are, why they are important and who is supporting their development. Be sure to check out the Learning Hub.
University of Richmond
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education & Research
The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Collaboration Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is noted. It is clear,...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: 6 12 Collaboration Rubric (Non Ccss)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not noted. It is clear,...
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Points of Light Institute: Generation On
Developed with the intention of making the world a better place, Generation On is a global project giving children service learning opportunities. Resources for teachers, children, teens, and parents are included.
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Unboxed: Collaboration, Critique and Classroom Culture
Create a classroom where students collaborate with others, recognize improvement in their work, and help each other strive to work harder.
University of Wisconsin
National Institute for Science Education: Doing Cl
How do you start building collaborative learning structures into your coursework? Authors provide some practical considerations to make this learning style work for you.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 20. Global Collaboration
In this module, students will learn to identify the characteristics of effective global collaborators, the importance of respect for others' cultures, and how to apply these skills in a global collaboration. They will examine a global or...
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Inside Higher Ed: 8 Ways to Improve Group Work Online
This article discusses why online collaboration skills are critical to student success in today's world and offers strategies for educators to help students do well in group projects.
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Magna Publications: Faculty Focus: Facilitating Effective Collaboration in Virtual Student Teams
This article highlights the key stages that virtual student teams typically go through, along with one or more practical strategies that instructors can employ to facilitate those stages. Some of these strategies employ the use of...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom: Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
Discover how to create a cooperative and collaborative learning environment in your classroom. This site features a definition for this type of learning strategy and ways to implement it in your classroom.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Supercharged Motorcycle Design
Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how collaboration kick-started their friendship- and shared dreams. [2:21]
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Building a Committed Team
Action steps that will build successful teams at the school level as well as implementation pitfalls and illustrative cases.
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Inter Link: Achieving Effectiveness Through Team Communication
Article discusses how to achieve better team communication. Lists the components of team communication along with barriers to effective communication. Also provides a section on feedback. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies,...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Group Discussion
We will all encounter situations where we need to work with a group of people, whether in class, business, or socially. This slideshow reviews the different types of groups and the roles each person plays in group discussions....
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: All About Us: Writing and Presenting Poetry
For this lesson learners write a poem about their class and classmates. Students then transfer their poems to individual presentation slides which are combined with their classmates' slides to create a class slideshow presentation. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Service Learning Project
Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.1.a Worksheets: Follow Agreed Upon Rules
[Free Registration/Login Required] A list of worksheets to practice the Common Core standard of following agreed-upon rules for discussions. Also included is a formative assessment for speaking and listening.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Art Pals: Donkey Hodie
Donkey Hodie and her pals are making art projects from materials found around Someplace Else. As they play and create their art projects, children practice collaboration, cooperation and perspective-taking. In the classroom, teachers can...