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Content Area: Cross Curricular

Curiosity Skill: Encouraging Students to Ask Other Students

If you want to make a massive change in the culture of your classroom, move from teachers asking students all of the questions to students asking each other questions!

A Tessellation Art (and Math) Project

Let’s create an MC Escher-style tessellation art (and math) project with nothing more than an index card, a marker, and paper.

Concentric Circles – Getting Students to Think Bigger (and Smaller!)

This differentiation technique is called “Concentric Circles”. You use it to move students up and down the ladder of abstraction, applying a single idea in multiple contexts.

How long should we wait after asking a question?

I might ask the best questions in the world, but if I don’t give students even three seconds to think, those questions aren’t doing their job. Here’s what we know about Wait Time.

From “Summarize” to “Synthesize”

Even what seems like a low-level “summarize” task can become beautifully high-level when we climb Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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