Jigsaw groups

Aaronson, E. and Bridgeman, D. (1979) Jigsaw groups and the desegregated classroom in pursuit of common goals . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5,4,438—46. 

Five double-bond equivalents can be recognised from the shift values (four for the benzene ring and one for the carbonyl group). The sixth double-bond equivalent implied by the molecular formula belongs to another ring, so that the following pieces can be drawn for the molecular jigsaw puzzle ... 

Combining the Jigsaw Puzzle Homoatomic Polyanions of Group 14 and... 

Fig. 12 Group 14 and group 15 compounds of alkali and alkaline earth metals which contain isolated homoatomic polyanions harmonize like parts of a jigsaw puzzle...

If you wish, divide the students in groups of four and have them use a jigsaw approach to share thoughts. Ask each group to review a particular activity or series of activities, share what they have learned among themselves, and then share with the whole class. Finally, ask the class to add any comments. 

Polanyi proposed an analogy. Imagine, he said, a group of workers faced with the problem of assembling a very large, very complex jigsaw puzzle. How could they organize themselves to do the job most efficiently ... 

The projects were prepared in groups of four students with specific individual functions in each work and mandatory rotations. The four roles performed by each one were laboratory/informatics technician, analyst, reporter and coordinator. This way, all students performed the four established functions (a different one in each project), representing the corresponding role-jigsaw project system. 

Figure 12. Tasks for the expert groups in a jigsaw classroom on atomic structure...

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