Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.

Students work together to create classroom rules by brainstorming why they are at school and what they need while they are there.

Thom Gibson shares his ideas on how to design student jobs for your classroom community.
This fits into Distribution of Leadership in our REORDER framework and fosters developing 21st century competencies or skills.

Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.

This ACSD article by Nancy Steineke examines how classroom management hinges on community, not coercing students into compliance.

In this lesson, students build classroom community by exploring environmental print and a teacher-created display that focuses on a favorite book. They then create and share their own presentations.

Students write an owner's manual that helps them get to know their classroom, provides them with a sense of ownership, and lets others know about their classroom.

Math puzzles to get students talking about their mathematical thinking. The site provides a collection of shape, number and graph sets. Each activity has four images/numbers, students then need to pick which one doesn't belong. But the trick is this, the puzzles do not have one correct answer. This can lead to interesting conversation and descriptions of what the student notices about the arrangement.

If you think up your own, you can submit them to the site.