21st Century Skills: Collaboration - Shared Goals

Lesson Overview
Students learned about collaboration and cooperation, shared goals and responsibilities by participating in a team building activity. After the team building activity, students put their collaborative knowledge to work with a life science lab. The students extracted DNA from strawberries and they collaborated in a discussion analyzing, comparing and contrasting the methods of extraction.
21st Century Skill
Collaboration: Skills of collaboration have to be explicitly taught and practiced. Students need time and opportunities to reflect and refine these skills. Each member of the group had a different role, but they all had a responsibility to contribute in the discussion and answer the lab sheet reflection questions.
Teacher & Content Area
Autumn Sharp, Life Science
Learning Standard
7th Grade Life Science - 7.2e Students know DNA is the genetic material of living organisms and is located in the chromosomes of the cell.
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