Use these claim–evidence–reasoning activities and templates to teach students how to support claims in science, social ...

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Try five metacognitive activities for students, including confidence ratings, error analysis, learning journals, exam ...

Try 10 jigsaw classroom activities with ready-to-use expert cards, group roles, student templates, and variations for small and large classes.

Critical thinking becomes easier to teach when students have something specific to examine. Instead of asking them simply to ...

Try eight retrieval practice activities, including brain dumps, low-stakes quizzes, retrieval grids, and two-minute recall, with examples for your classroom.

Find 60 exit ticket questions for every subject, grouped by comprehension, reflection, misconceptions, confidence, and next steps, with classroom examples.

When students highlight a sentence, I like to ask what made them stop there. Did the sentence change their interpretation? Did it raise a question? Did it give them evidence they could use later? A ...

If a child can match fragile to its definition, I’d ask one more question: “What’s something fragile in this room, and how do you know?” The first task checks whether the child recognizes the meaning.

A map quiz can help students locate Nova Scotia. The next question might be what a political map tells them about the province and what they’d need a different map to find out. I use the same approach ...