1. Warm Up Answer the following in complete sentences:
Describe in your own word what teamwork is.
Why do we use it?
What are some positive and negative aspects of teamwork?

2. Decoding Cubes Activity

3. Ultimate Question
What methods does your team use to solve the puzzle on each cube?

4. Social Skill: Use Quiet Voices
What does it look like
What does it sound like

5. Rules! Each person should be able to see one side of the cube.
NO ONE can touch the cube once I place it on the table!
As you are working, record the answers to the worksheet questions.
When you think you have the answer, let me know.
When you get it right, you can begin another cube.
There are three total.

6. What makes a good observation?

7. Set up your groups!
Designate a “runner”

8. Discussion What evidence did you gather for each cube?
Observations
Patterns
Methods
What would happen if you added more people to work on the challenge cube?
What were some difficulties/positives you would encounter?
How does this activity resemble science in the real world?
How is this activity different from science in the real world?
How would a time limit have changed the outcome of this activity if at all?

9. Final Question Discuss with your group of four the following question:
If you had to summarize what you did in the Decoding Cubes activity into a list of steps, how would you list those steps?
Create a list a tell why you included each step.

10. Answers?
Yes, No, Maybe So

11. Number Cube

12. Name Cube

13. Challenge Cube

14. Your Challenge!
With your original group of four create your own Decoding Cube!