Procedure

1. Identify three areas of the classroom as Green (expert), Yellow (intermediate), and Red (novice/beginner).

2. Pose a question or statement about a topic.

3. Students move to the color they feel best identifies their current level of understanding, knowledge, or confidence about the topic.

4. Within color groups, students briefly do the following: Reds generate questions over topic. Greens & Yellows respectively discuss the topic.

5. Heterogeneous groups might be formed before the steps below are followed.

6. Yellows share whole group what they know about the topic.

7. Then Greens elaborate and clarify additional information on topic.

8. Then Reds may ask questions over topic. If no questions remain, they can synthesize what was shared by the first two groups.

9. Teacher might contribute additional information or answer questions if the "experts" don’t know the answers.