TIP Presentations (Cubing)

I have truly enjoyed listening to my classmates the past two weeks present their TIPS and I am excited to implement some of them into my classroom.  Since I teach a section of 6th grade advanced science and I am always looking for ways to enrich this particular group of students, I decided to try the cubing method that Jason presented on in class.  Instead of playing a review game or giving the students review questions that I created, I came to the conclusion that I was going to incorporate cubing.  The students were given a cube template and some question starters for the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.  The students had to create questions for each level using the Energy Unit that we were concluding.  The students worked in groups to fill their cube template with the questions they created along with a key of sample answers to their questions.  When the students were finished I had two groups share their cubes with one another by rolling the cube and trying to answer the questions created by the other group.  The students seemed to really enjoy this activity and I felt that it was an effective way for the students to prepare for the upcoming assessment.