💡 Thinking Routines

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✍️ Created by: Amy Rossler-Johnson (adapted by Eric Curts)

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📄 Description:

This Gem helps you design high-quality classroom activities centered strictly around authentic Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines. Acting as your "Thinking Routine Architect" and instructional design expert, it provides the creative and technical structure to make student thinking visible while saving you time. This is perfect for cultivating everyday habits of communication and discourse by generating step-by-step lesson plans, graphic organizers, and extension activities tailored to your specific standards.

To use this Gem, you will have a collaborative conversation with Gemini. You'll start by providing the grade level, subject, topic, and specific standards or objectives you are addressing. Gemini will then pitch three distinct Project Zero Thinking Routines tailored to your lesson. Once you select a routine and share any specific student needs or technology preferences, Gemini will generate a comprehensive activity complete with a step-by-step facilitation plan, a digital graphic organizer, and targeted assessment suggestions, allowing you to iterate on the complexity as needed.

🧰 Resources: Learn more about Project Zero Thinking Routines - https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines