1 goes, 3 stay
One participant visits another group to gather information and brings it back to their own team.
Time
10–20 min
Form
In small groups
Phase
Process · Check
Materials
LudensFlow basic kit · Printable
Step-by-step instructions
4 steps · 10–20 min
- Form teams of 4
Everyone takes a number: 1 to 4. Your number decides when you travel. - Prepare the assignment
Every team works out the same assignment. Afterwards each of you must be able to explain it to another team — you do not know yet who will go. - Number 1 moves one team on
Clockwise. The visitor collects what they have; the three stayers tell their own work to the visitor who arrives at their table. Each round the next number goes, one team further than the last: round 2 is number 2, two teams on. - Back to your own team
Tell what you collected, and what your visitor told you. Add what you were missing to your own work.
Worth knowing
Two or three visits is the usual run. More is not always possible: after as many rounds as there are teams minus one the traveller is back at their own team, and with four per team number 4 is the last who can go.
The stayers are hosts, not an audience. If you see three people waiting in silence, that is the moment to step in — not the visitor who is taking too long. And "clockwise" is not about tidiness: without a fixed route two teams will visit each other all lesson.
Teams of four are the shape here, not a guideline: in a three there is too little left to host with, in a five somebody stands watching. If your class does not divide by four, make one team of three or five rather than changing every team.
Tips for the facilitator
Gathering information and reporting back
One travels, three stay as hosts
Groups share different sub-topics
Knowledge flows between the groups
Texts or task sheet per team; pens and paper to note collected information
- Send two informants per team for more exchange — the rest of the team stays
- Let informants visit multiple teams for a more complete picture
- Content lesson: each team studies a different aspect of a topic and shares knowledge via informants
- Language lesson: each team analyses a different text and informants relay findings
- Practical subject: teams each work on a different step of a process and share via informants
Based on Kagan's One Stray structure — one participant leaves the group to gather information from other groups and brings it back (Spencer Kagan, 1994).
Pairs well with
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