5th grade's inquiry into How We Express Ourselves gave students and opportunity to collaborate and practice looking at problems with a variety of perspectives. Their central idea, Open minded communicators grow their thinking through collaboration, helped drive their learning and the fifth graders gained valuable, life-long lessons about working together!
These are two of several examples of a performance task where students worked together to make something that represented their working together. They had the opportunity to explain their creation and the group process to create it.