Visible Thinking Routines

This is a support resource for Bill Roberts teachers to share successes / challenges and have a critical discussion about INQUIRY and how to make it work with the thinking strategies and backward design.

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

See/Think/Wonder

Connect: Second grade is going on a field trip to the Botanic Gardens tomorrow (yes, in the snow). This field trip goes along with...

Circle of Viewpoints

Connect: After reading, Encounter by Jane Yolen, and going deeper through the questioning, I wanted my first graders to have an oppo...

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

See, Think, (Evidence), Wonder

Jamie and I are working on a unit on Colorado History with our third and fourth graders and they are learning about Native Americans. To ki...

See, Think, Wonder

Connect : I wanted to give my first grade class an opportunity to explore ant artifacts before we started our research. I used the See...

Monday, April 15, 2013

I Used to Think/Now I Think...

Connect: The idea of homophones have come up several times in the past few weeks in my 2 nd grade classroom. I have been working wi...

Red Light-Yellow Light

Connect: Almost every Friday, Shannon Umberger and I get our classes together for Nonfiction Friday. The kids read an issue of Scholast...

The Explanation Game!

Connect: This thinking routine was to continue the work our class had done through our 'See, Think Wonder' routine. I wanted a wa...

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Chalk Talk

Connect: Each Friday we work on non-fiction with Mrs. Jackson's homeroom. Students pair up and read articles from 'Scholastic New...

See, Think, Wonder about Rocks

Connect: At the beginning of our science unit about earth materials I was feeling like I was leading too much of the conversations going on...

Red Light, Yellow Light Adaption

Connect: This year I am trying to integrate literacy as much as possible into my classroom. One way I am doing this is through a combined l...

Sunday, March 10, 2013

4 C's (adapted for ECE)

Connect: Because ECE children have so much schema to build, a strategy we use consistently during read-a-louds to deepen underst...

See Think Wonder (Winter)

Connect: In ECE, I am trying to use the See Think Wonder Chart as a basis for starting every unit with my students. It is very developmen...

Color - symbol - Image Connect - I attempted this thinking strategy with eighth graders during our chemistry unit. We had previousl...

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Concept Maps

Connect: In ECE so much of what we do is support children in building background knowledge/schema. One of the most effecti...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Headlines

In the middle of a science unit on life cycles, I wanted to do quick assessment to find out what kids knew so far. I did the "headli...

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