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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am Biol Teach. 2014 Nov;76(9):601–608. doi: 10.1525/abt.2014.76.9.6

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Diagram of jigsaw activity. First, students meet in their home groups to develop a model based on their existing knowledge (step 1). Then they break out into “expert” groups in which they study and discuss a research article, each expert group analyzing a different article or subset of articles (step 2). Finally, students return to their home groups to revise their initial model after reporting, discussing, and synthesizing their new knowledge (step 3).