Today class started with Dr. Smirnova telling the class that we were going to do the Jigsaw Activity today on the five kingdoms. We were suppose to talk in our expert groups to see if we all had the same information over Spring break and to bring a worksheet with us to have to explain our kingdom to each member of our other group. Jigsaw Activity was the activity of this class.In my group was Jackie, Veronica, Jessica W., and Joyce. Jackie did the Fungi kingdom. Veronica did the Plantae kingdom. Joyce did the Protista kingdom. Jessica W did the Animalia kingdom. While each of my group members were telling me about their different kingdoms I was jotting notes on my Kingdom chart. I really enjoyed this activity.
In order to use this activity in the classroom there needs to be a rubric and a list of things to include based on the topic you as the teacher are focusing on in the unit. If doing solar system or human body systems then students can be broken into different groups of 8 or 9 people and you as the teacher assign the role of what each student is going to look up information on like a planet, or a body system and assign which planet like Mars or body system like circulatory. I will definitely use this activity in my classroom. I could use this activity when wanting to learn about the different planets in the solar system. I could also use this activity when talking about the human body systems. That is just two topics that could use this activity. You as the teacher should have a base group and also have an expert group where three or four students have the same planet but are in different groups as a research group. It is good for students to take notes while their classmates are talking about their group. It is also a good idea for the students to ask the other students what the students learned as sort of a quiz. You as the teacher could also give the students a quiz to see how much the students learned about the topic that was presented. Jigsaw puzzle is a different way to get students involved in a topic and to learn from someone other than the teacher like a classmate.
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