This is a activity where students become 'experts' in groups on a certain topic, and then share this with each other. It helps students process the subject matter and learn to collaborate.
• Have students work in groups of 3-4 people. • Ensure that each group can be assigned a subtask/subquestion. • Pose a question or give an assignment for the class to work on. • Let the groups work out or answer their subtask/subquestion, or let the groups delve into a topic. • Then shuffle the different groups, so that each new group has 1-2 experts from each subtask/subquestion. Then have them give the answer or create the product together. • Then visit the different groups and/or discuss it centrally.
• Ensure that the different experts truly need each other, for example by asking a question that covers all aspects • Make the different experts feel like experts: give them, for example, a color or card, and truly in-depth information, so that they are indeed experts • A variant can be that the different experts start together in a group and then gather information in different locations, for example, to then return to their original group and share this. They can also make a plan of action
• A question or assignment • Information per subtask/subquestion