{"id":577,"date":"2017-06-29T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt222-2017\/?p=577"},"modified":"2018-05-24T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T02:12:47","slug":"cooperative-learning-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt222-2017\/2017\/06\/cooperative-learning-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperative Learning – Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Building Activity:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set up:<\/span>\u00a0For this team building activity, students will be in small groups of 3 – 4 students.<\/p>\n

Materials:\u00a0<\/span>Each group will receive a set of 3\u00a0sticks, 6 colored rings and the following prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Set up: arrange the sticks from left to right. On the leftmost stick, arrange the rings from largest to smallest with the largest ring on the bottom and smallest ring on the top.<\/p>\n

Tower of Hanoi: You must move all of the rings from the stick\u00a0on the left to the stick\u00a0on the right in the fewest number of moves. The rings should end up in the same order on the right stick\u00a0as they appear on the left stick\u00a0now. There are two rules:<\/p>\n

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  1. You can move only one ring at a time.<\/li>\n
  2. You can never place a larger ring on top of a smaller ring.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    This team building activity promotes communication and collaborative group work. Students must communicate with one another in order to be successful. Students need to work together to figure out how to get the rings to the third stick in the order they are currently in with the smallest number of moves. Students also need to be creative with their solutions to ensure that they have used the minimum number of moves possible to get all of the rings from the first stick to the last stick.<\/p>\n

    If you haven\u2019t seen the problem before, check it out here: Tower of Hanoi<\/a><\/p>\n

    Discussion:\u00a0<\/span>After teams have completed the activity, the class will participate in a discussion and address the following questions as a group:<\/p>\n