Structure Building- Cooperative and Collaborative Learning/ Shadow Puppet Creation

Structure Building- Cooperative and Collaborative Learning/ Shadow Puppet Creation

Activity- 1. Divide the students into groups.  Introduce action plan and materials available for use to create the strongest and tallest structure. 2. Each group has to draw and label a blueprint of their plan/design. 3. Create a rubric with students to evaluate their structures.  4. Fascilitate and ask each group questions – What are you using in your design to create  strength and stability.(We used  this to create a shadow puppet on the ipads that demonstrated their learning.) Assessment 5. Students will test their structures strength using textbooks.  Video tape.  (Have textbooks readily available) **While presenting to each group in front of the class. 6. Students collaboratively created a Shadow Puppet, designed a dialogue together, and share their learning about structures. 7. Parents were engaged as we showcased our learning at Student Led Conferences on our Smartboard.