The Second Cooperative Sports Games Book

Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015061013085

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The Second Cooperative Sports & Games Book by Terry Orlick Pdf

Terry Orlick's approach to sports is simple: when people play together and not against each other, everyone has more fun. The enduring popularity of Professor Orlick's first Cooperative Sports & Games Book proves just how many people agree. In this second volume -- twice as big, twice as much fun -- Orlick introduces an entirely new round of over 200 active games for indoors and out, and for players of all ages, sizes, and abilities. The Second Cooperative Sports & Games Book presents both completely original games as well as new ways to recycle such traditionally competitive sports as dodgeball or field hockey into fun-for-all challenges. There are: -- Special pointers on teaching cooperative skills to teen-agers and adults -- Outlines from successful cooperative intramural programs -- A whole chapter of games to play with toddlers -- Ideas for making your own playground equipment -- A giant bonus of international cooperative games from the Arctic to the South Pacific. As in his previous volume, Terry Orlick's emphasis here is on imagination, not expensive equipment or special skills, and on the idea that taking the competition out of games and sports simply means leaving more room for fun.

Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787219290

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The Second Cooperative Sports and Game Book by Terry Orlick Pdf

Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aggressiveness
ISBN : 0395631254

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No Contest by Alfie Kohn Pdf

Argues that competition is inherently destructive and that competitive behavior is culturally induced, counter-productive, and causes anxiety, selfishness, self-doubt, and poor communication.

Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Pantheon Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0787219282

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Cooperative Sports and Game Book by Terry Orlick Pdf

This book describes 100 games that depend on cooperation, rather than competition, for success.

Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0736057978

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Cooperative Games and Sports by Terry Orlick Pdf

Who needs cooperative games? -- Games for children ages 3 through 7 -- Games for children ages 8 through 12 -- Games for preschoolers -- Remaking adult games -- Cooperative games from other cultures -- Creating your own games and evaluating your success -- A new beginning : turning ideas into positive action.

Author : Jon E. Pedersen,Annette D. Digby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135508135

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Secondary Schools and Cooperative Learning by Jon E. Pedersen,Annette D. Digby Pdf

Original essays by noted scholars explore cooperative learning, curriculum development, and teaching strategies. Focusing on grades 9 through 12, the volume first emphasizes theories underlying the use of selected cooperative learning strategies in secondary schools and then examines strategies and practical applications for classrooms. Contributors include David Johnson, Roger Johnson, Ruven Lazarowitz, Yael Sharan, Shlomo Sharan, Robert Slavin, Karl Smith, and others who have successfully implemented cooperative learning strategies in science, math, social studies, English/language arts, and gifted and talented. These contributors focus on how models are utilized and implemented. Discussions involve obstacles that impede success, problems and concerns, solutions, and suggestions for problem solving. An index is provided.

Author : Suzanne Lyons
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807780886

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Cooperative Games in Education by Suzanne Lyons Pdf

Cooperative Games in Education is the first comprehensive guide to the world of cooperative play and games for preK–12 learning. It includes a thorough pedagogical rationale and guidelines for practice, a survey of related research and scholarship, engaging anecdotes, illustrations, historical background, and an array of sample games to try. In cooperative games, players win or lose together, sharing the experience of fun and challenge. No one can be eliminated in a cooperative game. What is eliminated is us-versus-them perception and zero-sum thinking. When students come to see each other as allies, rather than rivals, there are profound interpersonal effects that enhance community, inclusion, and a positive classroom climate where all can learn and thrive. This accessible, lively resource explains the value of cooperative games with guidance to help teachers use them for maximum social-emotional and academic benefit. Cooperative Games in Education will also interest the broader community of administrators, therapists, school psychologists, game designers, child-care providers, and others who care for children and need tools that foster healthy development, positive relationships, and joy. Book Features: Discussion of relevant research and theory.Best practices for choosing and facilitating cooperative games, including how to integrate them into any curriculum, guide post-game reflection, and convert traditional competitive games to cooperative ones. A full chapter of educational cooperative games correlated to their educational purpose.Discussion of some of the most salient applications of cooperative games, such as social-emotional learning, academic subject-area instruction, cooperative learning, trauma-sensitive practice, bullying prevention, early childhood education, and more.User-friendly features such as questions for reflection, end-of-chapter games, charming author-generated illustrations, and classroom vignettes. A synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that includes the work of Montessori, Piaget, Froebel, and Dewey, as well as perspectives from neuroscience and evolutionary biology. The fascinating history of cooperative games, from their origin as a tool for peace education to their current role as a pop-culture entertainment phenomenon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781937730314

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Open Minds to Equality by Anonim Pdf

Author : George M. Jacobs,Michael A. Power,Loh Wan Inn
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483362977

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The Teacher's Sourcebook for Cooperative Learning by George M. Jacobs,Michael A. Power,Loh Wan Inn Pdf

A dynamic team of authors demonstrates how any classroom teacher can use cooperative learning techniques for lesson planning, classroom management, and improving students' collaboration skills.

Author : Frank Hoffmann,Beulah B Ramirez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135894818

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Sports & Recreation Fads by Frank Hoffmann,Beulah B Ramirez Pdf

True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads. This readable and fascinating reference book highlights some of the most notable as well as some long-forgotten pastimes and personalities. Sporting and recreation events have thrived in the United States for more than two centuries. Just about every sport and recreation embraced from Colonial America to the present has had its faddish aspects. The fascinating introduction provides a basic understanding of the importance of fads in the development of sports and recreation. No book on sports fads would be complete without several chapters on baseball, and this exciting volume is no different--Hank Aaron's 715th home run, baseball card collecting, Mark “the Bird” Fidrych's shining season with the Detroit Tigers, Bo Jackson's double career, Jackie Robinson's success in breaking the color barrier, and Pete Rose's gambling troubles--a true slice of Americana, the best and the worst of our favorite pastime! From the controversial people and events in professional athletics--Mohammed Ali, Joe Namath, Mike Tyson, the “battle of the sexes” between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, the “Black Sox Scandal,” and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, to the heroes--Charles Atlas, Joe Louis, and Babe Ruth, Hoffmann and Bailey illustrate the often fickle and sometimes enduring interest that Americans have for sports figures and their games. This informative and entertaining book also examines our personal quest for fitness, our devotion to automobiling, and our love of games, including bridge, charades, crossword puzzles, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit. Sports &Recreation Fads is a handy guide to our favorite leisure activities of the last 200 years.

Author : Terry Orlick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cooperation
ISBN : OCLC:226180620

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The Cooperative Sports & Games Book by Terry Orlick Pdf

Author : David Booth
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 092121703X

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Games for Everyone by David Booth Pdf

200 fascinating games to thrill, surprise, and amaze kids of all ages. Includes old favourites and new, imaginative games that will help students compete, cooperate, communicate, and have fun.

Author : Jack Shaffer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810866317

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Historical Dictionary of the Cooperative Movement by Jack Shaffer Pdf

Cooperatives are found everywhere, doing all kinds of things. They are critical elements in the economies of a large number of countries around the world, large and small. Their affairs are carried out by elected leadership that runs the gamut from the illiterate to the scholarly. Their membership is made up of people of all socio-economic backgrounds. It is those members who, through their support and their needs, determine the successes and failures of cooperatives. But cooperatives as a popular movement will also be judged in other ways. A judgment will be made on the totality of their impact: local, national, and international. People will ask about how they helped ameliorate the economic and social problems of the dispossessed. But they will also inquire about their influence on economic systems, whether these were made more humane, egalitarian, and inclusive in their benefits because of cooperative principles and practices. Their impact on the international order will be judged collectively by how they contributed more than resolutions to peace, to justice, and to human inclusiveness. This volume provides snapshot views of the cooperative movement in all its diversity. The only single source one can consult to find so much information on the different kinds of cooperatives, significant figures, including philosophers, pioneers, officials, and leaders, and the situation in a large number of countries. With a list of acronyms, an extensive chronology, appendixes, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Richard Heinberg
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780835630931

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Celebrate the Solstice by Richard Heinberg Pdf

This book is an accessible, engaging tool to help people enrich their lives through the observance of ancient, astronomically determined Earth festivals. It assists us to recover an experience that had deep meaning for the ancients and that is now increasingly relevant to a world facing environmental challenges. Seasonal festivals are not meant to be cultural relics. They are joyous, fun, mischievous, profound, life-affirming events that connect us deeply with the Earth, the heavens, and the wellspring of being within us. This book encourages us to undertake full-bodied, ecstatic seasonal renewal by providing information on the history and meaning of the solstices with practical suggestions on how to celebrate them now.

Author : Jonathan Salisbury,David Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780750704847

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Challenging Macho Values by Jonathan Salisbury,David Jackson Pdf

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.