Cooperative Learning in the Science Classroom.

From: The Science Teacher | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Emily Lin

Even though much has been written about cooperative learning in recent years, busy high school teachers contending with heavy curricular and teaching demands might not know much about the instructional method. Equipped with only a partial understanding of cooperative learning, some teachers may view it as a series of forced artificial constructs while others may view it as simply separating students into groups for an activity.

To help high school science teachers make sense of the extensive cooperative learning research over the last two decades, this ...

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