cooperation

Today I divided up the class into 6 cooperative groups and gave each group 1 poster board and 8 pieces of colored paper and told them to build a map using only glue markers, scissors, paper and the poster board. It was great to see them communicating (and sometimes not!), risk-taking, thinking, having an open-mind and thinking about how to get the assignment done together peacefully. This was done in 30 minutes!