Communities: Tension Engagement
We have begun our new unit of inquiry entitled Communities. The students took part in a tension engagement to get them thinking about the topic. They worked in groups and were simply given a large sheet of paper and asked to design a community, no further instructions. They went straight to work and discussed their ideas with their groups. Before long, the creativity was flowing and they designed very interesting presentations of what they thought a community might be. They presented these communities to the class with very convincing explanations of why they thought it was a community. Their classmates were given a chance to question their ideas or agree with them. We discovered that there are indeed many types of communities.
