Sixty-one Cooperative Learning Activities: Thinking, Writing, and Speaking SkillsPromotes cooperative interaction among students through hands-on activities. Stimulates critical-thinking and writing skills with creative exercises and timely issues. Features support material including detailed lesson plans, student directions, and step-by-step guidance. |
Contents
Getting Acquainted | 2 |
What Are Your Favorites? | 4 |
Yes You Are Unique | 6 |
Cheer Yourself Up | 8 |
Personality Pictures | 10 |
Archaeology Today | 12 |
Id Like to Introduce | 14 |
What Bugs You? | 17 |
Planet Earth in the Year 50002001 | 71 |
Thomas Jefferson | 72 |
Trial for Treason | 74 |
Great and NotSoGreat Presidents | 76 |
Women in United States History | 78 |
All About the Mass Media | 81 |
Writing a News Story | 82 |
Newspaper of the Future | 84 |
Lets Party | 19 |
Just the Facts | 21 |
Some Problems Some Solutions | 23 |
Poor Richards Almanack | 25 |
Mark Twain | 28 |
All About School | 31 |
The Ideal School | 32 |
A Guide to Your School in the Future | 34 |
Teach a Day | 36 |
Conversations in and Around School | 38 |
Spend a Day Away from School | 40 |
A Class Act | 42 |
Were in Charge | 44 |
Hire the School Principal | 46 |
A Report Card for Teachers A Report Card for Parents | 48 |
Your Own Dictionary | 50 |
Pen Pals | 52 |
All About the Past and Present | 55 |
Time Line | 56 |
Create a Country | 58 |
Spending Priorities for a Poor Nation | 60 |
History of a Year | 62 |
In the News | 64 |
A City of the Future | 66 |
2508 A D | 68 |
Advertising and Society | 86 |
Fraudulent Advertising | 88 |
A Teens View | 90 |
A Television Talk Show | 92 |
Writing and Presenting a Television Commercial | 94 |
A Guide to Cyberspace | 96 |
Advice to Television Stars | 98 |
Movie Titles | 100 |
Advice in Print | 102 |
Desert Island | 104 |
All About This All About That | 107 |
Brainstorming | 108 |
Picture Dialogue | 110 |
Members of the Club | 112 |
My PC and Me | 114 |
The Name of the Game | 116 |
An Imaginary Voyage | 118 |
The Great Adventure | 120 |
Story Wheel or Storyboard | 122 |
BoxofJunk Story | 124 |
Cooperative Story Writing | 126 |
Future Food | 128 |
Dr Seuss | 130 |
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Common terms and phrases
activity advertisements Ask students assemble Assessment assignment begin brainstorm brought to class bulletin board Butter Battle Book classmates complete cooperative learning create creative Describe dialogue discuss handout Distribute and discuss Distribute handout entire class Favorite final copy four students future Grade group members group of three Group Size Guide Page Objectives handout in detail handout with students help students homework humor ideas lesson letters listening magazine Mark Twain markers Materials Needed menu movie titles newspaper notebook paper oral presentation paper and pens pencils period to read person picture Poor Richard's Almanack practice speaking aloud prepare president problem Procedure quotations report cards Reproducible Required Seuss Skills Special Tips stories aloud student writes students per group students select partners suggestions Teacher Guide Teacher Guide Page television Tell things Thinking Thomas Jefferson Three or four three students topic Variations variety write a story written