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Best For: Grades 2 and up
Description: Numbered Heads Together is a cooperative learning strategy designed to promote discussion and accountability for all group members. You can read more on the strategy
here. I did this activity when the EAL teacher was in the classroom and we were able to better facilitate the students together. At the start of the lesson the students were placed into groups of four. Each group member received a number from 1 - 4. We posed a question about our current unit of inquiry to the students and as a group they discussed the question and came up with an answer. After 3-5 minutes of discussion we stopped the students and called out a number between 1-4. The students with that number stood up, this meant that there was one student from each group standing. This student then had to share their groups answer with the class. This was repeated a number of times with different questions.
Ranking: I found this to be a valuable lesson and all the students were engaged and able to follow the instructions. I gave it four stars not five as I feel for the younger grade levels setting this up with only one teacher would require a lot of time and some students may find it difficult to found the directions.
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