Revising students' comic strips and sharing
- Hand out blank forms of the comic strips from Day 1. Give students time to fill in this new sheet; they can add on to, take out, or revise parts of what they originally wrote or drew. Students should not only be including observations they made of their own study but also include observations and ideas from other groups in the class. In addition to including time (example: "three days later") in their comic strip, students should write evidence to back up the revisions they've made to the new comic strip. Keep this revision session quiet for the first half so those students who think better with minimal noise can succeed too. In the second half of the revision session, students should work together to compare their revised comic strips and edit each others' work before final class sharing.
- Ask students to fold the top of the page with their name over, collect all comics, and redistribute them randomly so that the comic strips are relatively anonymous. Hand out a green, yellow, and red post-it to each student (or have your students hand them out) and explain that green means "Yes, I agree because.....", yellow means "I need some clarification" or "I'm wondering what you meant by....", and red means "I disagree because....". Students should write why they agree or disagree on the post-it; similarly, students should write what they need clarification about on the post-its. Each student should use all three post-its as they walk around the room looking at other students' comic strips.
- Give students about 20 minutes to view other's ideas and distribute their post-its. Collect all the Day 1 and Day 10 comic strips (with post-its attached) to look over later as an assessment. Of course, these should be handed back out to the students after reviewing.
- Gather students back in their seats (or the closest seat, depending on your students and the time remaining). Watch this quick video about collaboration of biologists, chemists, physicists, and geologists: http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/outreach/videos/ecohabpnw5.html. Emphasize that science is very collaborative and many experts in respective disciplines must work together to make steps in research, particularly regarding harmful algal blooms.