Strategy: Small group and regroup
Overview
This quick strategy promotes communication skills and collaboration across science groups.
Small group and regroup
This quick strategy promotes communication skills and collaboration across science groups.
At the start of class, give each member of a small group a different colored sticker.
After collecting or analyzing data, have students regroup by sticker color to share their data and/or analysis.
In the new grouping, have students discuss their original group results with their new group peers.
Reflect:
- Were the groups' results the same or different?
- Did the groups' answer the analyze questions the same or differently? Why do they think that was?
Transition into a whole-class discussion about issues related to data collection and analysis.
- How were data the same?
- How were data different?
- What might account for the differences?
- How did differences in data impact the analysis of data (the patterns, groupings, or trends identified)?
- What other factors could account for differences in the analysis of the data?