Pairs Compare
Pairs generate a list of possible ideas or answers. Pairs pair and compare their answers with another pair. Finally pairs work as a team to create additional answers or ideas.
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Pairs generate a list of possible ideas or answers. Pairs pair and compare their answers with another pair. Finally pairs work as a team to create additional answers or ideas.
- Teacher provides a question that has multiple possible responses and provides think time.
- Rally Table: Shoulder partners Rally Table answers. They "keep it a secret" from the other pair.
- Teacher calls time.
- Pairs Compare: Pairs pair to Round Robin their answers. For each answer, the face partner in the other pair adds the answer to that pair's list, or checks it off if they already have it.
- Team Challenge: As a team, students generate new answers, taking turns within pairs recording answers on their pair list.
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