Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Week 4-- Cooperative Learning/Information Resources

Cooperative Learning Scenario

This assignment is part of a unit on Natural Wonders in the United States: Divide students into seven teams each team is to gather information about one of the seven natural wonders in order to compose on of seven chapters in a Natural Wonders book.

Information Needed From Each Group
  • absolute location: latitude and longitude
  • relative location- e.g. west of the rocky mts
  • climate
  • absolute size
  • relative size
  • Age of Natural Wonder
  • Composition (geological information, fresh/salt water, pine or maple forest)
What skills do students need to carry out this group assignment?
Choose one skill and describe how you would teach it.

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