Bag It!

Students are broken into small groups.  A passage is given about different components of a topic.  Each group chooses a component within the passage.  The groups collaboratively decide which clues can be used to describe their topic (i.e. the Thirteen Colonies ­ each colony is a separate component within the topic).  Each group will put the clues to their component in a paper bag.  The others will try to figure out which component the clues are for.  Each group rotates to each other’s clue bag.  The lesson finalizes by the groups revealing which components they gave clues for.