Purpose: To work collaboratively to create a character's face and personality.
Cognitive
Objectives
Students will:
• choose facial features to
create a character's face,
• use their imagination to create a personality for their characters face
• use their imagination to create a personality for their characters face
Cooperative Objectives
Students will:
• learn to share materials and take turns,
• learn to build on each other's ideas,
• practice oral communication skills,
• learn to think about how they interact,
• learn to reflect on how well they complete a task.
Positive
Interdependence
• Each group shares one character sheet, one pair of scissors, and oneglue stick,
• Each member has a different facial feature to contribute to the
group's face.
• Each member
contributes 3 descriptors
to create the
character's personality.
Individual Accountability
• Each member is
responsible for contributing
a facial feature to the
group's face.
• Each member is
responsible for contributing
3 personality descriptors to
the group's character.
• Each member is
responsible for explaining
his/her reasons for each
personality description
he/she contributes.
Method
1 .Divide the class into heterogeneous groups of 4
students each. Give each group one character sheet,
2. Give each member of the group a different set of
facial features (i.e., student #1 gets four eyes, student
#2 gets four noses, etc.).
3. Explain that each group will work together to create a
face. Each member chooses I of the four features
from his/her facial feature cards to glue on the
character sheet. Draw cards from a numbered deck
to determine which member will begin the face; the
member to his/her left chooses the next feature and
so on until the face is complete. Students draw in the
hair and jawline,
4. Once the face is complete, the group works together
to create a personality for the face. Each member
takes a turn using his/her remaining feature cards as
"tickets' to contribute one personality descriptor for
the face, Each descriptor must be related to the
descriptor given by the person before (i.e., build a
consistent personality).
5. Each group presents its character's face and
personality to the class. The group may wish.
Processing of
Social Interaction
The teacher discusses with the
class:
• 'Did everyone take turns
giving features and ideas?'
• 'Did everyone agree about
the personality?'
Reflection
on the Task
• Each group presents their character's
face and personality to the class,
Each member presents, in turn, his/her
contribution to the character's face
and personality, and explains the
reasons for choosing his/her
personality descriptors.
• The teacher asks each group during
the presentation how its character's
personality fits together.
Evaluation
• Each group submits one completed character sheet for evaluation.
• Each group presents its character's face and personality to the class.
Resources
• Provide each group member with a different set of facial features (i.e., one strip of eyes, one strip of noses, etc.). It is suggested that the features be enlarged to 135%.
Provide each group:
• one pair of scissors,
• one glue stick,
• one character sheet back to back on the same sheet so that the
character's face can be glued on the front of the sheet, and the personality descriptors written
on the back),
• coloured pencils or markers.
