Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Putting Jigsaw to use!!!

Jigsaw and Native Americans




Jigsaw is a great way to have students work collaboratively with one another. Jigsaw is just like a puzzle and each student is a piece of that puzzle. Each student is highly responsible for their part, if they fail to bring their collaborative skills and effort the puzzle will fail. 

During this class activity we were asked to get into groups of five and each member of the group was to take on an important role of gathering as much information possible on the Native American Indians that were assigned. We worked through google docs and by collaborating with out mastery group in class. The mastery group is the group that you go to that incorporates the people that have the same topic as you. You work with these people to get a good idea of what you want to teach your peers about so that everyone is learning the same thing. It is also helpful so that if one person forgets a piece of information the mastery group can help.

During my experience I had learned a huge piece of knowledge that I must have overlooked during my time reviewing all of the information. My tribe had slaves! In fact they were one of the first people to have slaves from what we know in history. I CAN NOT BELIEVE I DID NOT SEE THAT IN MY RESEARCH!!!







Once we were done working in our mastery groups we got back into our main group. The main group is the people that we will be teaching out topic to and learning about their topic. My group made FANTASTIC handouts for one another. Each hand out was different, some people use publisher and other used processor. It was great to see the different ideas that we all had. We all made sure t o include captivating pictures and colors, which made the boring information seem a lot more interesting.






I learned so many new facts and more importantly I was able to see how Jigsaw can be useful in my classroom!

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