Teach vocabulary and communication skills with this cooperative game. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier. Each has a game board and game pieces copied from this book. For example, each student receives a zoo game board and zoo animal game pieces. One student places her animals in the empty spots on the zoo game board. Now here s the challenge: Through talking only, that student must describe how she arranged her animals in the zoo so her partner can match the layout. As students try to make a match ( place the zebra in the bottom space that has the tree on the right side ), they must communicate clearly using the target vocabulary. Book includes 30 games focusing on must-know vocabulary including: animals, food, clothes, transportation, weather, sports, human body, and many more.

Match Mine: Language Builder

Education & Teaching

Kagan, Miguel

Schools & Teaching

Kagan Cooperative Learning

There's no better way to get your students talking about and using the language of mathematics than using these communication-building Match Mine games. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier. They each receive the same game board and game pieces copied from the book. For example, the game board is a grid and the game pieces are solid 3D geometry shapes. One student organizes her pieces on the game board. Then, with words alone, she must describe her arrangement to her partner so her partner can make a match. Students learn and use mathematics vocabulary and concepts as they play. Includes 30 reproducible games spanning 7 strands of mathematics. Your students will ask to play again and again.

Match Mine: Mathematics, Grades 3-6

Create a caring, cooperative class through energizing classbuilding activities! This best-seller includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, 100's of activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 11 favorite cooperative, classbuilding structures like: Mix-N-Match, Stir-the-Class, and Who Am I. A must for the block schedule. Students are quickly and immediately energized ready to tackle any curriculum. If you want to promote a positive class atmosphere with fun and easy activities, this is the source!

Classbuilding

Kagan, Spencer

Kagan, Laurie

Use the hundreds of open-ended higher-level thinking question in this book to venture beyond the basic facts of social studies. Watch as your students voyage into a whole new realm of thinking and learning. Includes intriguing questions for sixteen of the most popular social studies topics and themes including: Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters, Historical Events, Native Americans and more! Stretch the many facets of your students' minds with these thought-provoking questions: "What do you think would happen if Congress tried to establish an official religion? What does your culture have in common with this culture? America wasn't discovered, it was stolen from the Native Americans. Do you agree or disagree?" Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Simultaneously explore social studies in depth and promote higher-level thinking!

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Social Studies, Grades 3-12

Politics & Social Sciences

Chapman, Christa

Social Sciences

Watch your students dig into life and earth science with this collection of higher-level thinking questions. Includes sixteen popular topics and themes: Animals, Bugs, Environment, Health and Nutrition, Human Body, Oceans, and many more! Create a natural environment to nurture the development of your students budding thinking skills with hundreds of questions such as: Should cosmetic testing and medical research be done on animals? Why or why not? Why are people living longer today than ever before? What impact does civilization have on nature? If you could have one sense be super strong, which sense would you choose? How would you use it? Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Bring science to life with this whole world of questions guaranteed to get your students thinking!

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Life & Earth Science, Grades 3-8

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Light up your students minds with these electrifying questions. You ll find hundreds of ready-to-use thinking questions on sixteen of the most popular physical science topics such as: Astronomy, Electricity, Force and Motion, Inventions, Matter and Energy, Simple Machines, Technology and many more! Skyrocket your students thinking into outer space with these provocative questions: Why do you think people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe? How does a door wedge work to keep a door open? If gravity pulls things down, why don t airplanes fall from the sky? Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Physical Science, Grades 3-8 (Question Books)

Respect! Responsibility! Integrity! Honesty! How do you develop these valued character traits? In this book of questions, you will find hundreds of questions, quotations, and dilemmas to explore and develop character. Use quotations by famous folks as a springboard for writing and discussing, such as the following by Anne Frank: The final forming of a person s character lies in their own hands. Why is your character ultimately your own responsibility? Use dilemmas to have students evaluate their own values and behaviors: If someone does not treat you with the respect you deserve, would you treat them with the respect they don t deserve? Why or why not? And have students examine their own traits and those of others with provocative questions such as: Are there ever situations where it is best to say something you don t believe? Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided.

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Developing Character, Grades 3-12

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Personal & Social Skills, Grades 3-12

Develop your students' thinking skills with hands-on cooperative logic activities. You copy the provided picture cards and clues for your students. They work in teams to figure out how to use the clues to line up their cards in the correct order. Build your students' deductive thinking skills, spatial reasoning, spatial vocabulary, and teamwork skills with these 72, ready-to-use, logic activities. You'll find problems, answers and reproducible, line-up cards for 12 popular themes: barnyard, bugs, dinosaurs, fantasy, holidays, nutrition, occupations, outer space, pets, seasons, shapes, and under the sea. Includes full-page, reproducible cards for whole-class activities, and quarter-page cards for the team, pair, and independent activities described. Learning how to think has never been so much fun.

Logic Line-Ups

Providing For ALL Learners in General Education Classrooms Help ALL students reach the language arts standards! This video and teacher guide will help you reach the standards for all using Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. In the video, Dr. Spencer and Laurie Kagan take us on a tour of a range of elementary school classrooms using the Kagan Structures to reach the language arts standards. The teacher guide includes chapters on the language arts standards, cooperative learning, reaching the standards for students with disabilities, reaching the standards for second language learners, and reaching the standards through multiple intelligences. The teacher guide highlights the structures previewed in the video and includes step-by-step directions, special adaptations for special populations, and literally hundreds of activity ideas for using the structures to reach the language arts standards. Many structures even include ready-to-use, blackline masters from the video activities.

Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning: Providing for All Learners in General Education Classrooms, English/Language Arts

Dude Pub

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