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A Routine for Digging Deeper into Ideas
Make a claim about the topic or issue being explored.
What things do you see, feel, or know that show evidence for your claim?
What do you think you know about this topic?
What questions or puzzles do you have about this topic?
How might you explore the puzzles we have around this topic?
Considering the idea, question, or proposition before you...
What excites you about this idea or proposition?
Make meaning from a specific text by capturing the heart of the text
Write a headline for this topic or issue that summarizes and captures a key aspect that you feel is significant and important.
Choose a color that you think best represents the essence of that idea
Choose a symbol that you think best represents the essence of that idea
a thing that stands for something else
Choose an image that you think best captures the essence of that idea
like a photograph or drawing of a scene
Reasoning: Why did you choose this color, symbol, and image?
Generate
Generate a list of words, ideas, phrases, or aspects associated with the topic
Sort
Connect
Connect your ideas by drawing lines between ideas that share a connection
Elaborate
Select a few central ideas and elaborate on them, creating subcategories that breaks the ideas into smaller parts
resources from Making Thinking Visible
From this point of view, consider these questions:
Include "What makes you say that" for each response.
Think about a person or an object that is connect to the event or situation you are examining. Place yourself within the event or situation to examine things from this point of view.
Step 3: Question
Step 2: Support
Step 1: Claim
Reflect on your current understanding of this topic, and respond to each of these sentence starters:
2 questions
3 words
1 metaphor or simile
2 questions
1 metaphor or simile
3 words
Identify how your new responses connect to or shifted from your initial response
Looking at the topic or question written on the paper in front of you:
How are the ideas and information presented connected to what you already knew?
Needs
What else do you need to know or find out about this idea or proposition?
Excitements
Worries
What worries do you have about this idea or proposition?
What new ideas did you get that extended your thinking in new directions?
Stance, Steps,
Suggestions
What challenges or puzzles have come up in your mind from the ideas and information presented?
Routine for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas
Sort your ideas according to how central or important you think they are
Share the Thinking!
Pair up with another group and share your concept map
i.e. a dove equals world peace
an equals sign stands for equality
Think about the big ideas and important themes in what you have just read, seen, or heard.
by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison