The document provides a list of questions about group work and roles, benefits of student engagement and interaction, skills for effective group work, and potential writing prompts about different animals. It discusses how having students work in groups allows them to pay attention, stay motivated, learn more, and better retain what they learn. When students interact more with peers and the curriculum, their learning increases. Effective group work requires skills like listening, turn-taking, helping others, problem-solving, teamwork, and compromise.

3. • What type of group did your form?
• What were your individual roles within the
group?
• What might be the result if your role was
eliminated from the group?
• What might be the result if one person from
each group was asked to join together to
form a new group?

4. When students are engaged, they pay attention,
they’re motivated, they learn more, and the
learning sticks.
The more students interact with peers and the
curriculum the more they’ll learn.
-Dr. Spencer Kagan

8. Listening Turn taking
Helping Praising
Polite waiting Patience
Stay on task Following Directions
Reach Consensus Problem Solving
Active Listening Teamwork
Asking for help Providing Clarification
Compassion Complements
Contributing to ideas Different Perspectives
Negotiating Critique Ideas of Others
Responsibility Disagree Appropriately
Accepting Decisions Compromise
Sharing Encouraging Others
Asking Questions Accepting Compliments
Greeting/Departing Being Honest
Being Flexible

10. Is a gain for one, a gain for another? Is help
necessary?
Is individual public performance required?
How equal is the participation?
What percent are overtly active at once?

12. A day in the life of …
My most memorable experience as a …
My most frightening experience as a…
Sea Turtle Dolphin
Gray Wolf
Imperial Woodpecker
Lotus Blue Butterfly

13. What I Know…