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This routine asks students to uncover their initial thoughts, ideas, questions and understandings about a topic and then to connect these to new thinking about the topic after they have received some instruction.
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To help students flesh out an idea or proposition and eventually evaluate it.
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Color Symbol Image Instructions
This routine asks students to identify and distill the essence of ideas from reading, watching or listening in non-verbal ways by using a colour, symbol, or image to represent the ideas.
The routine provides learners with a structure for a text-based discussion built around making connections, asking questions, identifying key ideas, and considering application.
Color Symbol Image Example
4 C's Example
This is routine builds on children’s familiarity with the game of tug of war to help them understand the complex forces that “tug” at either side of a fairness dilemma. It encourages students to reason carefully about the “pull” of various factors that are relevant to a dilemma of fairness. It also helps them appreciate the deeper complexity of fairness situations that can appear black and white on the surface.
This routine helps students to reflect on their thinking about a topic or issue and explore how and why that thinking has changed. It can be useful in consolidating new learning as students identify their new understandings, opinions, and beliefs. By examining and explaining how and why their thinking has changed, students are developing their reasoning abilities and recognizing cause and effect relationships.
Tug of War Example
Connect-Extend-Challenge Instructions
The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge. It also encourages them to take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning.
6 Thinking Hats
Connect-Extend-Challenge Example
6 Thinking Hats Example
6 Thinking Hats combined with Connect-Extend-Challenge
(per Jennifer Ho)
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