Sample content Axia College Material Appendix D Earth Day Poster Activity Directions View the CheckPoint: Earth Day Poster multimedia interaction on your aXcess page at http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/axia/aed205/earthday-checkpoint.html. Observe Group 1 and Group 5, then respond to the following questions. Note: if you can only see Group 4, make sure you have opened the correct multimedia interaction. 1. Identify the strategies used by Group 5 that made its team project experience truly collaborative. What could Group 1 and the teacher learn from Group 5? In group 5, all of the children managed to work together well. Each of them in group 5 took a particular job and helped the project. Ruslan is from Belarus, and he is not very good at speaking English, but the students learned from him that Belarus is facing similar water problems in the same way that America is. Every member of the group contributed their ideas, and also took responsibility for part of the project – Nick handled the lettering, Juan took notes and organized the poster, Chandra relayed information between the teacher and the group, and Crystal made the drawings for the poster. Group 1, though, is not working well together on their project. Only 1 of the group members is going any work on their project. The other group members are too concerned about a field trip and wondering who is getting in trouble. The teacher need to supervise the different groups and keep them on-task by walking between the different groups to make sure that everyone is helping. Since group 5 managed to break the project into tasks and give each student one, their project is going really well. In group 1, though, no students are helping Sam, and Sam does not tell the teacher because he does not want the other students to be mad at him. The teacher should have noticed that only one student is actually working, and they should talk to the group to find out the problem. I think that they students should not be able to choose their own groups or where they get to sit. Karam admitted that he picked Sam for group 1 because Sam is smart, and that he wanted to sit in the back of the classroom because it was easier to talk in the back abou