Suggestions and Scaffolding

• Make sure that all groups have drafted out a plan for their program that includes your established criteria before giving them a tablet to code.
• Check in with groups as you circle the room. Ask guided questions such as:
• What is your group’s real-world problem?
• How does your group’s problem affect us ALL in some way?
• How are you going to solve the problem?
• What challenges have you faced?
• How did you overcome them?
• Create heterogeneous ability groupings so that those who are stronger can help those in need.
• Create homogeneous groupings based on higher ability level, so that students are motivated and stimulated by intellectual peers.