Question Formulation Technique (QFT) – Having students ask the questions to guide their learning is a great way to encourage kids to take responsibility for their own learning.
- Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
- The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. We have worked with and learned from educators to develop a…
- The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for Summative Assessment – YouTube
- Joshua Beer’s students in his 8th grade class in a rural New Hampshire community do brilliant work working with this Question Focus as…
- The “Three Good Things Exercise” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
- Determining the “why” of the event is the most important part of the exercise, and can open up your mind to ways you can increase the…
- 25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning –
- enjoyable exercises in strategy, tactics, and problem-solving thought. So below we’ve collected 25 of these critical thinking apps. Mos…
- Science Underground by Ainissa Ramirez of Science Underground on iTunes
- Science Underground By Ainissa Ramirez – Science Underground is a two-minute podcast hosted by TED speaker and scientist Ainissa Ramirez….
- Science Underground | Science Podcasts | Science Radio Shows | Science Media | Home
- short podcasts about science. Ainissa is best-known as one of the world’s foremost science communicators—a “science evangelist,”…
- The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
- create short online animations is a great benefit the Web provides. Students can work individually or in a group very methodically by mak…
- “If giving points is the only way to motivate a student…” –
- to complete an assignment, perhaps we should look more closely at the assignment. “Don’t grade practice. Give feedback. And most w…
- Books for Boys – Recommended by Librarians
- annotated reading list of recommended books for boys
- Horizontal History – Wait But Why
- one of the rare elements of history that’s indisputably black-and-white—who happened when. we need to get the basic timeline and char…
- DESIGN SQUAD NATION . Build | PBS KIDS GO!
- Touchdown challenge
- Design and build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land. In this challenge, kids follow the engin…
- Innovation Education Resources | NASA
- NASA’s education specialists have developed themed units of NASA content – specific, hands-on, problem-based activities – designed to…
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