Use the concept of role and emphasize that there are different ways to play a role. Emphasize that there are different ways to solve a problem. Assembling an information packet for each participant may help guide initial role playing activity. Models of Teaching. The Project Team Meeting is meant to demonstrate not only the science and technology, but also the social interaction that takes place when large-scale collaborative efforts are undertaken within a democratic process.
Participants are free to sit where they wish.
Placards may be used to identify the each role. At the outset, no one is expected to have a complete understanding of the role they are about to play. Teacher provides a basic description of each role, each of science instruments, a basic sketch of the problem involved in defining and coordinating a precise sequence of events that is to take place years into the future when the spacecraft goes by the planet, and the role of the community represented. Giving students just enough information to start, the simulation is structured as a guided discovery learning experience. At this point, enthusiasm and improvisational expressiveness are the necessary ingredients for success.