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Sorting Mats

Sorting Mats

Teaching STEM

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

Print and Video Venn diagram

Print-Video Venn Diagram

Teaching STEM

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

Pros and Cons list

Pros & Cons Organizer

Teaching STEM

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

Question-Answer relationship icon

Question-Answer Relationship

Teaching STEM

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

Students viewing a video

Read-View-Listen

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students obtain and summarize information presented in different information transmission types (text, images, audio).

A student passing a paper

My Questions Round Robin

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students develop and refine meaningful questions about content.

KWL: Know/Want to Know/Learned

KWL: Know/Want to Know/Learned

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students reflect on prior knowledge, wonderings and new knowledge.

People connected together

Issues & Stakeholders

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills by identifying issues and stakeholders

Key Concept Explorations

Key Concept Explorations

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students explain their understanding of a concept using a graphic organizer.

Key Ideas Round Robin

Key Ideas Round Robin

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students consider the perspectives of others as they summarize key ideas

Importance Line

Importance Line

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students think critically about ideas by ranking them on a scale.

Group Talk

Group Talk

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students share and listen to the ideas and questions of others

Chunk-Chew-Check Learning Strategy

Chunk-Chew-Check

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students process and make sense of new information.

Concept map on blackboard

Concept Definition Web

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students understand the meaning of key concepts through the use of a graphic organizer.

Consensus

Consensus Mat

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps a group of students share and discuss ideas in order to produce a collective, agreed-upon response.