Getting Jiggy With Life Science!

This week was all about Life Science! To learn this topic we used a technique called Jigsaw teaching! Until now I have never heard of a jigsaw activity, but i'm glad now that I know. This activity is good for breaking up a broad topic.Everyone in the class was broken up into groups. This is called your base group. Then each member of the group chose an animal kingdom. Once everyone chose the animal kingdoms group separated into expert groups. The expert group works together on their given topic to learn as much as they can. Once they feel that they have mastered the topic, each classmate returns to their base group to teach them their expertise. I really enjoyed this activity because it taught me the information I needed to know without being overloaded and having to go in-depth for each subtopic. Every group did a great job teaching the class about their expertise!!