NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Have Super Hearing With a Super Sound Cone
This site from NASA provides an interesting approach to the subject. How do messages travel in space and how do we intercept those messages on Earth? Find out the answers as well as find out how NASA's giant dish antennas work.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
This site has a lesson to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
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.
PE Central
Pe Central: 3 5 Pe Lessons Ideas: Team Bowling
Through "team bowling," students not only practice their cooperative learning skills but also practice rolling and catching. At this website, learn how to plan team bowling as a gym-class activity. Included are ideas for varying the...
PE Central
Pe Central: High Middle School Pe Lesson Ideas: Progressive Bowling
Students work together in "progressive bowling" to knock down all ten pins. This activity requires students to work together and to practice their rolling technique. Includes ideas for varying this activity and assessing students...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pre School Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowling
Introduce young children to bowling and the arm movements associated with this sport. This lesson plan allows students to create variation of bowling by setting up pins in unique arrangements and through participating in small groups.
PE Central
Pe Central: Classroom Teacher Integrated: Superstar Bowling
Use a "superstar bowling" to practice cooperation, underhand throwing, and spelling skills. The lesson plan presented at this website includes an overview of the materials, a description of the physical activity, and ideas for varying...
PE Central
Pe Central: Cooperation Assessment
Ask young scholars to think critically about their previous experiences with cooperative learning and physical education activities. This website provides a list of questions that students need to answer on their own. Turned-in responses...
PE Central
Pe Central: Ditto a Cooperative Game
In groups, students not only design and build something using equipment set for them but also write a detailed description of the item they have created so that others can follow their lead. This activity requires students to be...
PE Central
Pe Central: Mystery Puzzle Race
Students work in teams to complete physical tasks and, in the process, solve a sports- or health-related puzzle. Modify this activity to make it more challenging or to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowl a Rama
Introduce children to bowling in this gym-class activity. Young students practice rolling a ball with partners and then practice rolling a ball toward specific targets.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Atozteacherstuff: Inside a Seed
atozteacherstuff lets you take a closer look at the inside of a seed by using this lesson plan to "discover the beginning of a plant."
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members
A teaching resource to use with difficult students who do not participate appropriately in their cooperative learning groups including The Dominant Student, The Slow Student, The Bored Bright Student, and the Competitive Student.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...