Is it a Food? Group Data
When the conversation in the classroom reached a fairly loud level, I brought all of the students back together for a group discussion (data from the warm up below). I began by asking students as a whole what they decided did not constitute a food on the list. I received reasonable, though varied, responses from students. Soon, the group conversation dissolved into a discussion of preferences FOR food rather than a scientific explanation of what IS food. I noticed that, as I initially wondered around the room as students worked, I saw most students writing down their own definitions and thus I engaged in conversation with these students. However, when we came back together as a group, I noted that only a certain few students dominated the group discussion.