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Read The Overview: Synthesize: 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.

Specific Examples of “Change, Then Explain!”

A Remix Library

A list of stories inspired by older stories to teach your students about the history of reusing ideas.

Reader Question: Unusual Animals

A reader asks how we can take the typical "look up facts online and then present with PowerPoint" task to an appropriate level of challenge.

From “Summarize” to “Synthesize”

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

From Silent Reading To Creating Art

I've been continuing the idea to explore classic music during silent reaing, and incorporated Gustav Holsts' "The Planets." My students, who have an affinity for memorizing gods and goddesses, took a special interest in this idea. I figured, let's see how far their interests will take us?

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.

Creating A New Mathematical Operation

Do your students realize that addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are all examples of the same idea: an operation? And that it's quite possible to create a brand new operation? Let's do it!

Create A Holiday

Take students beyond the decorations and ask them to identify what a holiday reveals about a culture's values. Then, push them further as they develop their own holidays.

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