Purpose: Build understanding of a large quantity of information

A study team and teaching strategy where teams work collaboratively to understand a large quantity of information. There are various ways to organize the jigsaw activity, but the central concept is that teams of people are assigned or select topics that they teach to others.  The teams decide collectively how they are going to share what they know. One way to acquire knowledge from a large amount of material is to break it into smaller pieces.  Each student becomes an expert for part of the material and then shares their knowledge with their team.