Cooperative Groups - Bees

On Monday the children were placed into ability groups (based on reading levels) for our provocation for our new topic, Sharing The Planet. The children were the poster below.

In their groups they were given one website to use and had to find as many facts as possible to answer the question, 'Why bees are important to humans?' They were reminded about how we work as groups and how were they going to ensure that group members were not writing the same facts.

I was really pleased with the way the groups worked. There was one all girl group who just got on with it, communicated amazingly well and had no fuss. Unfortunately, 2 boys did let their group down by not putting in the effort. We talked about this.

Their final task was to use the facts to come up with a group answer - one sentence. Everyone had to agree and understand the answer. They all managed it!