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==After the Activity: //Potato Detective//  … == == 1. How did you feel when you learned you couldn’t use the potato’s number in your description? ==  It meant that we had to use the potatoes distinctive features to solve the problem. == 2. Did you find it easier or harder to write in a group and why? ==  I found it easier to work in a group because each member found a different way to describe our potato.  3. Describe the different methods used in your group to describe the potato, and explain which were the most effective and why.  The most effective adjectives were those that differentiated our potato from the rest. We used the different colours, shapes and indents to describe our potato.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I think everyone just pretty much contributed what they saw, we all took an equal part in contributing to the description. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. Describe the multiple intelligences used by yourself and others in your group during this activity. How well did your group make use of these different intelligences to achieve its goal? – give examples <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I think I used my linguistic intelligence to provide interesting descriptions about the potatoes however I wasn’t really aware of my other group members multiple intelligences and I think that this activity used observation and expression more than multiple intelligences. <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. Describe how your group worked together as a team. What qualities would a group to make a ‘good team’ for this activity? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As a team we all contributed and observed different things about the potato. Good qualities that are needed are communication, observation, expression and being able to describe what you notice about the potato. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7. What difficulties arose during the each part of the activity (describing and ‘choosing the correct <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> potato’)? Why did these problems arise? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Problems arose that had to be sorted out if people disagreed on which potato was being described. In these situations i think everyone worked really well together to solve and discuss which potato was being described based on the clues given. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8. In retrospect, what else could your group have done to improve its performance in describing and <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> selecting a potato? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Nothing, we described the potato well, everyone picked our number correctly. <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">9. In what other way(s) could you have behaved within the group to assist with the task? Explain, as <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> clearly as you can, why you chose //not// to behave in this way during the activity? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In my opinion I contributed the most to our potatoes description.
 * // Reflecting on the activity: //**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What ‘roles’ did you observe being undertaken in your group?