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Leading Questions
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.
![Carousel on a sunny day](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/carousel-with-two-horses.jpg?itok=ceoYRhCa)
Carousel Brainstorm
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students generate ideas in response to prompts and build on the ideas of others.
![Chat discussion icons](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/chat-discussion-icons.jpg?itok=-OG8KfJC)
Say Something
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.
![Two students having a discussion](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/further-education-candid.jpg?itok=vWGNgyMo)
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.
![Four students putting their heads together](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/group-of-four-happy-multiethnic-friends.jpg?itok=SC8Fqwgx)
Three A’s Plus One
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills by providing a structure for focused dialogue about a text.
![Students discussing a subject in the classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/class-ge29e96db6_1280.jpg?itok=ALDCw9rU)
Knowledge Building Circle
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students co-construct collective knowledge.
![A diverse group of students studying a set of papers spread out on a table](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-09/Four%20corners%20header.jpg?itok=3x5me13y)
Four Corners
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.
![The four 8's in a standard deck of cards](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/8cards.jpg?itok=3wNrW85E)
Crazy 8s
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students to brainstorm ideas as a group.
![Students working together](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Working_collaboratively.jpg?itok=D42Q5Wfd)
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.
![Girl with raised hand](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Communicating.jpg?itok=-9iskBtH)
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.
![Two girls writing](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/write-around_discussion.jpg?itok=zsWYtY70)
Write-Around Discussion
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps small groups of students consolidate knowledge about a topic.
![Two students talking in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2023-02/ThinkPairShare6x9.png?itok=GZwDiGnG)
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.
![Person thinking](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Think-Discuss-Decide.jpg?itok=Mx3h3iS6)
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.
![Teens near a graffiti wall](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-10/teens_graffitti_wall.jpg?itok=HcGXn4i2)
Silent Discussion/Graffiti
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills as they contribute opinions and personal connections to a topic.
![Print and Video Venn diagram](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Print-video%20Venn%20Diagram_1.png?itok=9HEZsQ5M)
Print-Video Venn Diagram
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students collaboratively summarize information presented from both a text and a related video.