Jigsaw Activities Bundle

This is the ultimate bundle for all of your jigsaw activity needs!

What are jigsaw activities?

A jigsaw is an activity that involves the organizing of students dependent into various groups. Students are dependent on their peers to learn a new skill, and then teach the skill to another set of peers. 

A teacher will take a topic or set of skills and break it into pieces. Students will work together to assemble the pieces to complete the task.

How to do a Jigsaw Activity

1. You start by selecting a task or topic. This must be a topic that can be broken down into subtopics.
2. You will then assign students into groups that we will call HOME groups. 
3. Within the Home groups, you will assign each group member a number or colour. 
4. The students with the same number or colour will form new groups that we will call the EXPERT groups
5. The expert groups will research or learn a sub topic that has been assigned to them by the teacher
6. Through research and/or practical activities, students will gather information and learn as much as possible about their given topic. These findings should be documented somewhere (paper, online doc, poster, etc…)
7. Once students have been given enough time and feel that they have mastered the topic, students will regroup into their HOME groups. 
8. One at a time, students will teach their HOME group members about what they have learned. Group members should be recording this new information on the worksheet
9. (optional)Students will then complete a final task to show what they have learned

Jigsaws are a great way to engage students! Jigsaws let students:

-Learn independently and among their peers

-Teach their peers about a topic they have learned

-Work collaboratively with others

-Learn without direct instruction from the teacher

This product includes:

• 4 variations of Jigsaw worksheets
• An editable Jigsaw group creator

You can make groups of various sizes, based on class sizes of:

• 24 students
• 25 students
• 30 students
• 32 students
• 36 students

The group creator includes an editable Google Slides version, so that you can insert students' names. The pdf version is not editable and instead has students numbered.