Teaching STEM

This graphic organizer helps students understand the details of what they read. It combines aspects of traditional five W’s strategies with the critical thinking skills involved in comparing and contrasting.

This strategy helps small groups of students consolidate knowledge about a topic.

This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills as they think about topics individually, in pairs and as a large group.

This strategy helps students develop decision-making skills as they think about and discuss issues with the aid of a graphic organizer.

This strategy helps students reflect upon and assess a video.

This strategy helps students to become familiar with vocabulary before reading or viewing unfamiliar material.

A Sequence Organizer is a graphic organizer that is used as a way of classifying/organizing information to represent causality and consequences, and to identify patterns.

This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills as they contribute opinions and personal connections to a topic.

This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills as they sort, organize and classify things in different ways.

This strategy helps students collaboratively summarize information presented from both a text and a related video.

This strategy helps students develop decision-making skills as they determine the pros and cons of an issue.

The Question Creation Chart (also known as a Q-Chart or Q-Matrix) provides students with a framework for developing a range of personally meaningful questions, encompassing both close-ended factual questions and open-ended, divergent questions. (Adapted from Weiderhold, 1997).

Question Filter is a strategy that is used to assist students in developing the skills of questioning, sorting & classifying and analyzing & interpreting in order to develop their understanding of the characteristics of objects, places and events.

A Question Matrix is a tool to assist students in developing the skill of asking rich, higher-order questions about objects, events, ideas, and places in their environment.

This strategy helps students reflect on new content by asking questions that require different thought processes.