The Details icon prompts students to determine the key facts, features, and details within a topic, guiding them to focus on the defining characteristics that form their understanding of the content. 

The Big Idea icon guides students to develop overarching statement and generalizations about a topic, encouraging them to identify the central principle or concept that can be supported with evidence.

The Patterns icon directs students to examine a topic for repetition, predictability, or cycles, helping them identify recurring features and the relationship that emerge from those patterns. 

The Rules icon encourages students to analyze the structures, procedures, and organizational elements within a topic, prompting them to identify both explicit and implicit rules and consider how these shape the content. 

The Ethics icon prompts students to examine the controversies, biases, and value judgements within a topic, encouraging them to consider principles of right and wrong and reflect on the beliefs that influence perspectives in the content. 

Language of the Discipline invites students to think like experts by identifying, using, and analyzing the key vocabulary and terminology that are essential for understanding a topic. 

The Trends icon guides students to explore tendencies and influences withing a topic, examining how patterns shift over time and identifying the causes and effects that shape those changes. 

The Unanswered Questions icon prompts students to identify vagueness, puzzles, and problems within a topic, encouraging them to raise meaningful questions and look at the assumptions that shape their understanding.

The Multiple Perspectives icon encourages students to consider a range of viewpoints on a topic, guiding them to analyze differing perspectives and interpret their significance within the content. 

The Over Time icon guides students to investigate a topic’s past, present, and potential future, helping them understand how it has shifted over time and make informed predictions based on what they know now. 

The Across Discipline icon encourages students to make connections within and between subject areas, guiding them to identify relationships that link multiple fields of study.