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Curated OER

Video Conferences with Parliamentarians

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students from all over Canada videoconference with Parliamentarians to talk about issues in a current bill.
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Curated OER

An Opening Time Line Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Curated OER

Deliberating "Pros" and "Cons" of Policy Options

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to examine different policy options. Using documents, they explain the trade-offs and incentives of each option. They complete a handout for each option and discuss the outcome of each role-play. They end the...
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Curated OER

Seeing the Forests for the Trees

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore changing logging practices in the Congo Republic and research the many roles of tropical forests as a natural resource. To synthesize their understanding, students write letters to loggers in Africa, urging them to...
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Curated OER

How Close Can We Get?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders guide themselves through the traditional outline structure by reassembling papers, which have been cut into separate sentences. They see how close they've come to the original paper and evaluate their achievement.
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Curated OER

The Fourth Quadrant of Proportiona

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students experiment with scale to solve a problem presented in a video clip. They determine the correct size to use when constructing a model and evaluate the use of proportions in real life applications.
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Curated OER

Your Body's Building Blocks

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the elements of the Periodic Table as they relate to the building blocks of the body. They experiment to measure the amount of iron in the body.
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Curated OER

The Arms Race - From the Beginning to the End

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders focus on the political and technological developments of the Cold War. They, in groups, read and summarize the speech they are given. They should provide a short presentation based on their interpretation.
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Curated OER

India and Pakistan: a Simulation of Outcomes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become aware of world conflicts and how conflict resolution is used to minimize threats around the world. They analyze a current world conflict and utilize conflict resolution strategies to determine a viable peace initiative.
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Curated OER

Mountain Quest!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate scientific and cultural data in order to make a recommendation for locating a new observatory site for NASA. In five groups, they conduct research on the five locations, and prepare a multimedia presentation.
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Curated OER

Bless Me, Ultima - 1

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders consider the importance of setting in the Southwest-themed novel "Bless Me, Ultima". As part of a larger unit, 10th graders research the setting of New Mexico and work in groups to prepare presentations about the region's...
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Curated OER

Reading

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a jungle run in which they must group with the same people who hold the same cards with pictures of a tree, mushroom, deer or insect. In these groups, they read the definitions of sustainable development. Using...
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Curated OER

Civil War Museum Exhibit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders summarize the participation of Indiana citizens in the Civil War. They research an assigned topic and build a museum exhibit that displays at least five points of information relating to the topic. Students write a...
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Curated OER

Examine Persuasive Elements by Reading, Analyzing, and Discussing Persuasive Text

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify persuasive strategies and analyze arguments. In this persuasive writing lesson, students read "Chief Red Jacket's Reply" and "Reverend Cram's Speech to the Iroquois Nation" and chart major elements of each argument....
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: 7 Free Jigsaw Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides activities for cooperative learning groups. Seven activities for grammar, author study, and other academic areas are provided as resources to use with students.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Eagles in the Ecosystem Classroom Jigsaw Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this in-depth jigsaw activity, students investigate the role bald eagles play in the ecosystem, why they were listed as endangered, the effects of DDT on eagles, and the effects of lead on eagles. Furthermore, students will then graph...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: 7 Free Jigsaw Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Step by step guidelines explaining how to use seven different Jigsaw Activities in the classroom.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Whittle, Whittle It Down: Summarizing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...
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Other

Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The "official web site of the jigsaw classroom",- a cooperative learning technique which was developed by Elliot Aronson. The jigsaw approach is considered to promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Jigsaw

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels....
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Do You Really Want to Visit the Arctic?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...
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University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Jigsaw

For Students 3rd - 5th
Selection of jigsaw puzzles on themes related to ancient Egypt.

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