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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.
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Sorting Mats
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills as they sort, organize and classify things in different ways.
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Pros & Cons Organizer
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop decision-making skills as they determine the pros and cons of an issue.
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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).
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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.
![Question Matrix](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Question_matrix.jpg?itok=LWRheZEl)
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.
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Issues & Stakeholders
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills by identifying issues and stakeholders
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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](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Importance_Line.png?itok=3Jxez3mN)
Importance Line
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students think critically about ideas by ranking them on a scale.
![Consequence map](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Consequence_mapping.png?itok=i6-4gQUn)
Consequence Mapping
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students to think deeply about the causes and effects of real or imaginary events, issues, or technologies.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students organize information for the purpose of making a decision.
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Design & Build a Bee House
Lessons
Students will learn about the human impacts on bee populations as they design, test, build and observe a structure for solitary bees.
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BYO (Building Your Own) Timeline
Teaching STEM
This is an individual or whole class strategy which combines reading/viewing comprehension skills with critical thinking skills. Individually or in groups, students choose one or several points from the timeline and create a sub-timeline related to the selected point(s).