First Turn, Last Turn
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students collaborate and practice active listening by taking turns to offer insights without cross-talking.
Walk Around Survey
Teaching STEM
In this learning strategy, students walk around the room to gather information from their peers.
Leading Questions
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.
Carousel Brainstorm
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students generate ideas in response to prompts and build on the ideas of others.
Say Something
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.
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.
Three A’s Plus One
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills by providing a structure for focused dialogue about a text.
Knowledge Building Circle
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students co-construct collective knowledge.
Four Corners
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.
Crazy 8s
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students to brainstorm ideas as a group.
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.
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.
Write-Around Discussion
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps small groups of students consolidate knowledge about a topic.
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.
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.