Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of prompts to use when putting students into cooperative groups. Students will be grouped via a Jigsaw activity with core academic area questions.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Bored Bright Student
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for differentiating lessons. Teaches will learn about the jigsaw method that will help in facilitating enrichment opportunities for students who are bored.
Virginia Tech
Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking
Included here is a study of collaborative learning versus individual learning. This study provides details of its methodology and its findings.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Majestic Peaks
In this lesson, students research plant and animal life on mountains, as well as different weather regions. They then work in groups to present their information to the class.