Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students provide constructive feedback to peers.

This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.

This strategy helps students develop a deeper understanding of new words or concepts.

This strategy helps students identify key ideas from a text, video, or other content and share these with a partner.

This strategy helps students think more deeply during text-based discussions.

This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills by providing a structure for focused dialogue about a text.

This strategy helps students make sense of the text they are interacting with.

This strategy helps students develop a respectful approach to taking on another person’s perspective.

This strategy helps students co-construct collective knowledge.

This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.

This strategy helps students to brainstorm ideas as a group.

The skill of predicting involves forecasting what is believed will occur in the future.

The skill of questioning allows students to pursue their ideas and explore the world around them.

Planning is a thinking skill that involves identifying methods, materials and a sequence of events to reach a goal, complete a project or accomplish a task.

The skill of observing involves using all of the senses, as appropriate, to find out about the characteristics, properties and attributes of objects, places and events.