Design Planning
Teaching STEM
A design plan lays out ways in which students will develop and test the agreed-upon solution to a Design & Build challenge.
Problem Identification
Teaching STEM
The first step in the Design & Build process is the identification of the key problem to be solved or need to be addressed.
Learning from the Experience of Others
Lessons
Students will recognize the benefit of seeking advice from those experienced in specific career areas that interest them.
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.
Video Review
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students reflect upon and assess a video.
Sequence Organizer
Teaching STEM
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.
Sorting Mats
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills as they sort, organize and classify things in different ways.
Question Matrix
Teaching STEM
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.
Pros & Cons Organizer
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop decision-making skills as they determine the pros and cons of an issue.
Question Creation Chart (QC2)
Teaching STEM
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
Teaching STEM
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.
Issues & Stakeholders
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills by identifying issues and stakeholders
Making Comparisons
Teaching STEM
Making Comparisons is a way of thinking about two or more objects, ideas and/or events to find out how they are the same and how they are different. Knowing this information allows students to sort, classify and organize objects, ideas and/or events, to connect prior knowledge about them to new knowledge, and to develop appropriate comparative vocabulary.
Importance Line
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students think critically about ideas by ranking them on a scale.
Consequence Mapping
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students to think deeply about the causes and effects of real or imaginary events, issues, or technologies.