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Engaging students in experiential (hands on) learning activities that will promote social skills with teamwork, critical thinking skills, problem-based learning, and technological skills is a great resource for students. There is also a video that you will be able to view on this website

This website offers a hands-on curriculum that includes lesson plans for listening skills, preschool education and social skills for young children 3 years old and up.

Use these strategies to improve your students' cooperative learning skills. Included are articles to teach you about each concept and lesson plans with which you can implement the strategies. These are great professional development resources and are an excellent resource to ensure that you are improving your professional skill set.

Several different articles about cooperative learning strategies.

Atomic Learning features a guided, step-by-step path for tech integration through online teacher workshops, classroom-ready projects, assessments, and just-in-time training and support on over 205 applications and over 50 assistive technology programs relevant to district and individual technology needs.

Educational Technology Guy is a great blog written by a physics teacher.  His blog relies on the fact that teachers want new ideas about technology and how to use it.  Davids blog has great resources that connect teacher to websites that will help them grow in their technology skills. 

This is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. This is a great site for everyone to utilize. I have used this website with all four of my boys, and they love it.

Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students. It is a well-researched instructional strategy and has been reported to be highly successful in the classroom. For a more in depth explanation of this strategy, follow this link to the self-guided tutorial.

http://www.desktoprating.com/wallpapers/movies-wallpapers-pictures/dinosaur-wallpaper-thumb.jpg Dinosaur Web Quest Introduction Students will begin a dinosaur hunt. This very easy web quest will introduce students to the concept of using various links to find information. They will also develop skills for opening and closing various windows in Internet Explorer. Using the various links, they will discover facts about dinosaurs.

Cooperative Learning strategies, games, and software

View Study Skills View Organizers Cooperative Learning Instruction Strategies For a teacher who is trying to teach through cooperative learning from the teacher's resources or lesson plans, he or she might face problems of discipline or noisy lessons as after all it's just a class full of students.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

Educators are introduced to PowerPoint, as they create a presentation that contains text, pictures, tables, and a graphic organizer. This Web-Site can help you put a presentation together to inform your parents about curriculam, classes, and events using a range of slide layouts and formatting skilles.

This is the Library of Congress's site. I find this to appropriate because it is from the government and it gives your mulitple choices on how to grow. You just decide on what exactly you want to do and search for it on the page.

The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country. I included the site because it is both a government ran website and allows teachers the opportunity to expand what they know with their own decisions.

Many schools now use this site to help students review key concepts in math and do some drill and practiced to improve their skills. It is broken down by grade level and standard.

This site has fun colorful noisy games that help ideas and information stick