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Differentiation TechniqueChange, Then Explain!

Read The OverviewSynthesize: Make A Change, Explain The Effect

I love the term "Synthesize" from the classic Bloom's Taxonomy, but it can be hard to know exactly what it looks like. My favorite "Synthesize Recipe" is to ask students to make a change to existing content and then explain the effects of that change to me.

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Specific Examples of “Change, Then Explain!”

Upgrading A Research Report

So many “research reports” are really just “regurgitation re-writes.” Here’s one way to take a research report to a much more interesting level.

From “Summarize” to “Synthesize”

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

Don’t Jump Straight to “Create”!

When we jump from “this kid likes board games” straight to “I’ll have them create a new board game”, we leave out important steps in the creative process and set kids up for disappointment (and end up with a lot of unfinished projects). Here’s how to scaffold a truly creative task.

Remix the Song “Help!”

Students took the classic song, Help!, and rewrote it to be about their collective summers.

Rewriting a Sentence With Different Coordinating Conjunctions

The first unit in our writing program was always teaching the coordinating conjunctions. It always felt goofy teaching this to 6th graders – especially a gifted magnet class. I mean… do they really not know the difference between “and” and “but”?

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