{"id":4020,"date":"2018-10-03T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:17:43","slug":"4020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2018\/10\/03\/4020\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Rectangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making Rectangles<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4021 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2018\/10\/rectangle-pieces-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2018\/10\/rectangle-pieces-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2018\/10\/rectangle-pieces.png 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve tried some cooperative challenges over the last couple of weeks. In the most recent, teams of four students each had to make four identical rectangles from a set of sixteen different shapes. The catch was that no one was allowed to use their voice nor to make any gestures. Team members could give a piece to another person if we thought it would help them, but we could not reach over and take a shape from someone else.<\/p>\n<p>All of the teams were successful at working very silently. Some managed to make four identical rectangles; some did not. But while the task was to make the rectangles following the rules, the overall goals were to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Respond to the needs of others<\/li>\n<li>Help others to do things for themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how students felt during the activity; what helped; and how well the students feel they did at meeting these two overall goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Rectangles We&#8217;ve tried some cooperative challenges over the last couple of weeks. In the most recent, teams of four students each had to make four identical rectangles from a set of sixteen different shapes. The catch was that no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2018\/10\/03\/4020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,1],"tags":[438,192,437,436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}