Identify the steps in a team’s life cycle.

Identification should include

  • forming—team members are selected and introduced
  • storming—the team works through conflict by using resolution/management techniques
  • norming—the team comes together
  • performing—the team produces results
  • adjourning—the team breaks up.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • How are the steps in a team’s life cycle important to the design process?
  • What are the risks of skipping a step?

Teacher Resources:

Project-Based Learning for First-Year Students Links to an external site.

CATME Five Teamwork Dimensions Links to an external site.