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Silly Sports & Goofy Games
Spencer Kagan (All Grades)
Illustrated by Celso Rodriguez
In a matter of moments you can convert any class into a focused, high-energy community. Boost energy. Boost achievement. Release joy with the world's most comprehensive collection of indoor and outdoor sport and game activities. Includes over 200 step-by-step, fun, and engaging sports and games in nine categories: Terrific Tag, Happy Helpers, Beautiful Balances, Creative Coordination, Meaningful Movements, Crazy Challenges, Ridiculous Relays, Silly Sports and Goofy Games. Use 'em for classroom brain breaks. Use 'em for rainy-day fun. Use 'em for physical education. You will promote classroom community—with these games everyone wins! 282 pages. BKSS • $29
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Over 200 Brain Breaks, Energizers, Teambuilders,
Classbuilders, and Challenges For All Ages!
Step-by-step format to guarantee success!
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• Build character
• Energize your class
• Stimulate Creativity
• Enhance emotional intelligence
• Promote positive social orientation
• Equalize participation
• Boost active engagement
• Develop a process orientation
• Connect with instinctual playfulness
• Stretch the bodily/kinesthetic intelligence |
"Every part of the school environment affects character, for good or for ill. All too often playgrounds are part of the problem of peer rivalry and cruelty. Spencer Kagan's wonderful collection of games shows how to use playground and classroom activities to build the cooperative skills and community feeling so crucial to character development and sorely missing in much of our society."
— Thomas Lickona, author Educating for Character |
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 Crafting Creative Community
Combining Cooperative Learning,
Multiple Intelligences, and Nature’s Wisdom
Dr. Liana Forest (Grades 3–8)
The dream of every teacher features a classroom where
students care about and learn from each other, exercise their own special combination of intelligences, participate fully in small group and class projects, and creatively solve group and individual problems while excelling academically. With this practical, year-long program you and your students can have it all. The sequentially organized lessons allow you to use your own curriculum while guiding your class to
develop increasingly complex social and intellectual skills. Group development at four major levels results in students gaining the ability to create and coordinate group projects of benefit to the community. At the same time, the step-by-step, solidly structured lessons introduce the class to examples from nature that apply to their own classroom behavior. Each of the 12 illustrated chapters includes three linked activity units, ready-to-use blackline masters, follow-up suggestions, teacher tips, and a variety of resources. Start now to realize the kind of cooperative, creative, and intelligent classroom community you've always wished for. 440 pages. BFCC • $34
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 Communitybuilding
In the Classroom
Vanston Shaw (All Grades)
Turn your classroom into a caring community so each student feels known, accepted, and appreciated. These easy-to-follow cooperative learning lessons create unity, build conflict resolution skills, and foster a will to work together. This book includes 37 proven lessons and hundreds of activities which foster teambuilding, communication skills, conflict resolution skills, and mutual support. 248 pages. BVSCB • $29
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 Reaching All by Creating
Tribes Learning Communities
Jeanne Gibbs (Grades K-12)
This long-time favorite has been revised, and expanded! Tribes blends cooperative learning and group process, prevention and resiliency, learning theory and school change into a comprehensive, meaningful whole. Use the Tribes process and activities to build a cooperative and caring learning community. 432 pages. DGT • $33 |
 Numbered Heads Together™ Software
The Quiz Show Review Game for Teams
Transform any review session into a power-packed cooperative learning experience! You simply type or paste in your questions for any subject and you're ready to play. The game randomly selects a question and students put their "heads together" so everyone on the team can answer for the team. And since any student can be picked at any time to share the team's answer, everyone must keep tuned in to every question or problem. Unlike other review games, with Numbered Heads Together you're confident that every student is actively engaged and that everyone is learning. Put the excitement of a quiz show together with the best of instruction. Your students will ask to play again and again! For PC & Mac. ENH • $29
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 Learning Chips for Promoting Engaged Discussion
Get your students talking about the curriculum with these communication boosting Learning Chips sets. Each set has 16 attractive, durable plastic, double-sided chips.
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Discussion Chips
Chips have sentence starters to encourage impassioned discussion about any topic. Examples, "I'd like to hear from…" "We need to focus on…" "So far we've talked about…" Set of 8 CMDD • $29 Save $11!
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Interview Chips
Varied interview question starters are great for interviewing classmates, interviewing students playing a historical or story character, or any interviewee. Class Set of 8 CMDI • $29 Save $11!
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Paraphrase Chips
Promote attentive listening with these paraphrasing gambit chips. After a teammate is done sharing, the next student must use a paraphrasing chip before he or she may share. For example, "Your main point is…""I heard you say…" Set also works to paraphrase teacher instructions and lessons. Class Set of 8 CMDP • $29 Save $11!
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 Communication Boosters SmartCard
Boost your students' communication skills. Build interpersonal relations. Transform your class into a more caring community. Do it all with gambits—functional phrases that empower students to say just the right thing. Whether they're saying hello or goodbye to teammates, disagreeing politely, asking for clarification, building creativity, or keeping the team on task, they'll know how to say it with style. In this SmartCard, you will find over 200 gambits designed to stretch your students' verbal/linguistic intelligence. Plus, you'll find structures for generating, using, and sharing gambits. Watch as your students work together more harmoniously. Listen as your students become more caring, respectful, and positive. TCO • $4 |
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