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Thinking Routines
Thinking Routines
What is Project Zero?
What is Project Zero?
Project Zero, or PZ as we like to call it, is an educational research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. According to its website, Project Zero’s “mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, in formal and informal contexts, and at the individual, group, and institutional levels.”
The research done at Project Zero is shared with educators in the form of frameworks and practices to help them design classroom experiences that cultivate students’ thinking.
Claim Support Question_1.pdfClaim, Support, Question
Claim, Support, Question
This routine encourages the process of reasoning by asking students to form interpretations and to support them with evidence. Questioning interpretations can help students see reasoning as an ongoing process.
How Can Technology Help Me Achieve This?
How Can Technology Help Me Achieve This?
Jamboard as a discussion board. Students use 3 different assigned colors for each sentence stem.
Docs in a 4-column table. Each student claims or is assigned a row and fills each cell in the row.
Sheets-Teacher lists the Sentence Stems in cells 1B, 1C, and 1D. Students either claim or are assigned a row in column A. Students fill their respective cells in columns B, C, and D.
Circle of Viewpoints
Circle of Viewpoints
This routine helps students see and explore multiple perspectives. It helps them understand that different people can have different kinds of connections to the same thing, and that these different connections influence what people see and think.
How Can Technology Help Me Achieve This?
How Can Technology Help Me Achieve This?
Jamboard as a discussion board. Students use 3 different assigned colors for each sentence stem: I'm thinking of..., I think..., A question I have from this viewpoint is....
Docs in a 4-column table. Each student claims or is assigned a row and fills each cell in the row.
Sheets-Teacher lists the Sentence Stems in cells 1B, 1C, and 1D. Students either claim or are assigned a row in column A. Students fill their respective cells in columns B, C, and D.
Circle of Viewpoints_0.pdfCreative Question Starts.pdfCreative Question Starts
Creative Question Starts
This routine provides practice developing questions that provoke thinking and inquiry. Brainstorming such questions helps students explore the complexity, depth, and multi-dimensionality of a topic.
Question Starters
Question Starters
Why...?
What if...?
What is the purpose of...?
How would it be different if...?
Suppose that...?
What if we knew...?
What would change if...?
Take a Stand
Take a Stand
This thinking routine scaffolds perspective taking especially in situations and dilemmas that lack clear right or wrong answers, especially those involving privacy, community, and civic life.
By using this routine repeatedly, students develop the thinking dispositions to:
1) slow down and self-reflect,
2) explore and engage with others’ perspectives,
3) seek and evaluate evidence, and
4) envision options and potential impacts.
The routine supports students to engage in the habit of considering/ reconsidering their own and others’ perspectives.
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