{"id":3343,"date":"2015-02-20T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:18:12","slug":"group-work-plenary-question-what-part-of-the-body-were-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/group-work-plenary-question-what-part-of-the-body-were-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Work Plenary Question: “Which Part of the Body Were You?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I study the abolition of the slave trade with my students using an extended group task\u00a0based on “The Apprentice” [details here<\/a>]. Students imagine that “Lord\u00a0Sugartrader”\u00a0has invited ambitious young businesspeople to come up with a national campaign to generate support for the anti-slavery cause. Using a range of sources and a structured framework for preparation, groups of students produce a viable campaign which justifies who it is aimed at, where it will be focused and how it will fund itself.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>A\u00a0fun plenary exercise (and one of the questions that\u00a0‘Lord Sugartrader’ asks each candidate) is to ask each member of the team:\u00a0“If the group was likened to a human body, with\u00a0each member of the group representing\u00a0one part of that body, which\u00a0part of the body were you? Be prepared to explain your choice”.<\/p>\n

Make it clear immediately that\u00a0no rude answers are allowed!<\/p>\n

You might start by listing a few obvious body parts on the board (e.g. heart, eyes, hands, nose, ears, muscles) and asking students what qualities we associate with each one.<\/p>\n

Then, give each student a few seconds to\u00a0reflect on this question individually and in silence.<\/p>\n

Next, give each team a few minutes to discuss their ideas among themselves, with the stipulation that each member of the team must represent\u00a0a different body part.<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0each student in each\u00a0team should share with the class their answer to the key question and explain their answer meaningfully.<\/p>\n

Taking it further<\/h3>\n

Each team could be given this worksheet (Group Work Plenary Task: Which Part of the Body were you?<\/a>)\u00a0and each student should\u00a0write a sentence on it explaining their choice and drawing an arrow to the appropriate place on the diagram.<\/p>\n

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Give students advance warning of this activity so they can ask their biology teacher about the function of less obvious parts of the human body (e.g. pancreas, liver…).<\/p>\n

Download<\/h3>\n

Group Work Plenary Worksheet: Which Part of the Body were you?<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I study the abolition of the slave trade with my students using an extended group task\u00a0based on “The Apprentice” [details here]. Students imagine that “Lord\u00a0Sugartrader”\u00a0has invited ambitious young businesspeople to come up with a national campaign to generate support for the anti-slavery cause. Using a range of sources and a structured framework for preparation, groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,467],"tags":[257,238,256,254,255,239],"class_list":["bg-responsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}