Collaborative Group Work (CGW)
Project work – Dare2B Healthy
Planning
Teacher: Jerónima Ribeiro de Sousa
Class: 9.º B (20 students)
Project: Dare2B Healthy Topic: Unit 1 “Show you care… be aware1”
Task: Public Awareness Campaign to promote healthy lifestyles
- You are going to participate in an international project on how to promote healthy habits among teenagers. The name of the project is “Dare 2B Healthy”.
- In groups of 4 you must create a poster, a leaflet or a commercial to give information on the topic and also to promote healthy habits.
Methodology: Collaborative Group work
Number of lessons: 3-4 (some work must also be done outside the class:
Operationalization
- Brainstorming on the differences between “Traditional Group Work - TGW” Vs. “Collaborative Group Work - CGW” (emphasis on the benefits of CGW – topics are written on the BB).
- Organisation of 5 groups of co-responsibility – 4 members each: teacher chooses four students, each of those will take turns and choose a second person, then that person will choose the third member and finally the last one is also be chosen by the previous member.
- Main tasks: research; selection; organization of materials and preparing a final product to display in class – a leaflet, a poster or a commercial. Any of these products MUST INCLUDE information about the following sub-topics:
(1) Contextualisation – the problem (some facts and figures);
(2) Main causes and consequences;
(3) What needs to change – solutions;
(4) Helplines/ lifelines or emergency and support services.
- The class is also informed about the evaluation criteria for the project, which is also displayed.
- Procedures:
- each group must assign (as they please) tasks 1 - 4 to each member;
- they must decide on the final product – leaflet, poster or commercial. In order to do that they must check the features of each by reading /analysing some documents and examples provided by the teacher.
- Groups must think about materials required as well as techniques they want to use to create the final product.
- Each member of the Group researches the assigned topic to find accurate information that must be carefully selected and compilated.
- Creation of the poster, leaflet or commercial.
- Display of work in class and oral presentation by all the members in each group.
Assessment
- During the process – groups fill in checklists and progress assessment forms;
- At the end - Class discussion, self and hetero-assessment of all groups (filling in of personal / group assessment forms.
NOTES
- All this information will be presented in a Webquest;
- The teacher will keep a record of the process in the form of pictures.