Students seek out and share ideas and information with classmates through this cooperative learning strategy.
Students seek out and share ideas and information with classmates through this cooperative learning strategy.
Help students process their thoughts and emotions on a topic by engaging them in a written conversation with their classmates.
Use this strategy in remote settings to help students “hear” each other’s ideas and gives them space to process emotional materials.
Use this interactive timeline activity to help students understand and remember the chronology of events.
Encourage students to recognize the multiple causal factors behind an event from history, the present, or literature, using the visual of an iceberg.
Use this graphic tool to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.
Adapted for use in remote classrooms, this strategy uses a graphic tool to help students consider the many factors that shape identity.
Spark students’ interest in a book before reading it by having them make predictions and ask questions about its contents.
Students become “experts” on a topic and then share their new knowledge with peers.
Create a practice of student journaling to help students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.
Consider how you can bring a practice of student journaling into your remote or hybrid classrooms.
Help students assess what they already know about a topic and what they want to learn.