Team+Inquiries

=Co-operative Learning:=

1. The Paperclip Challenge. Working in their learning teams (4-5 students), each team will be handed a paper bag containing the following items: a piece of paper, 10 paperclips, a piece of string, and (your choice). Give them five minutes to make the longest object, **without talking at all**. Afterwards, have students use a tape measure to measure their object. Graph results on board. Look at the longest, shortest, and middle (median). Discuss what was easy and what was hard about creating their object. How did they communicate? What would they have done differently? What was unique?

Materials: 70 paperclips, ball of string, paper bag etc

Assessment: Student journal reflection (blog article) on above questions and what they learned about working together.What were they proud of? What ideas did __other__ people come up with that helped? etc