As you reflect on these activities from the video, think about
how you might adapt and extend these ideas to your own teaching.
- Meylin Gonzalez's kindergarten class works together in a
simulated assembly line to make bread. To develop understanding
of the economic terms "needs" and "wants," Ms. Gonzalez draws a
"T" chart, listing needs on one side and wants on the other.
Next, students help each other as they work on their own
individual charts of needs and wants. - Oswaldo Rubio's fourth-
grade class develops a set of questions to guide their group
work, projects, and presentations on California missions. Mr.
Rubio encourages the questions and roles to emerge organically,
from the students themselves. The criteria for the research,
projects, and presentations are specified beforehand. Students
must gather information in pairs or in larger groups, sort out
the tasks, complete parts of the projects, and determine who
will make various parts of the presentation. - As 12th-grade
teacher Tim Rockey assigns group