Student Collaboration Ideas

In Kevin Honeycutt's podcast he talked about the need for kids to collaborate. I loved his idea about having three teams work on a project, each being responsible for a different piece or stage of development. I think it would be amazing if we could do this with the three academic teams at Merton Williams. Our teams are always very strong and some students have struggled in the past when they have transitioned to the high school, maybe a project like this would help build cohesiveness in the entire grade level. I have seen first hand the many benefits of students colloborating on projects during our "What Up Doc" project and the Science Olympics. I feel that I have such a better understanding of what they know and have learned by listening ( or reading on a blog) their converstaions with their peers.