Presentation preparation
- Teachers should keep roving and helping students as needed.
- Remind the students that today is a great day to start thinking of ideas that students want to share with the class about their observations or elaborate ideas. Students should feel more than welcome to display or share their information however they'd like (unless you as a teacher have a specific preference such as a PowerPoint slide or a paper poster).
- Assign each group with intellectual roles if there are concerns about equity or participation within groups. These roles might include the clarifier, the questioner, the big ideas person, the progress monitor, the skeptic, and the peacekeeper (28). The clarifier's task is to monitoring the group's comprehension of the ideas; the questioner's task is to ask for evidence of ideas and re-voice ideas and re-voice questions; the big ideas person is in charge of asking group members to relate their study to harmful algal blooms; the progress monitor focuses on ensuring the group's explanation of how their variable affects harmful algal blooms is gapless or collects ideas about how to advance the group's understanding of how their variable affects harmful algal blooms; the skeptic strengthens the groups' work for bringing attention to weaknesses in the argument; the peacekeeper monitors the presence of all groups member's ideas and/or voices.