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Collaborative Learning

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First Turn, Last Turn

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students collaborate and practice active listening by taking turns to offer insights without cross-talking.

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Walk Around Survey

Teaching STEM

In this learning strategy, students walk around the room to gather information from their peers.

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Leading Questions

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.

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Carousel Brainstorm

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students generate ideas in response to prompts and build on the ideas of others.

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Say Something

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.

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AB Each Teach

Teaching STEM

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

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Three A’s Plus One

Teaching STEM

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

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Knowledge Building Circle

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students co-construct collective knowledge.

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Four Corners

Teaching STEM

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

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Crazy 8s

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students to brainstorm ideas as a group.

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Working Collaboratively

Teaching STEM

Working collaboratively is the act of working effectively with other students and/or adults within diverse groupings. It is an essential part of conducting science.

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Communicating

Teaching STEM

Communication is the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, and/or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.

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Write-Around Discussion

Teaching STEM

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

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Think-Pair-Share

Teaching STEM

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

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Think-Discuss-Decide

Teaching STEM

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