Using this strategy, students identify something they find surprising, interesting, and troubling about the selected stimulus. Using S-I-T, students can summarize and demonstrate their interaction with a text, an image, or a video.
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View ResourceIn this lesson, students make connections between prior knowledge and new knowledge of mathematical concepts. Students label dot plots and box and whisker plots, identify minimum, maximum, and median data points, and create box and whisker plots. This lesson encourages students to create their own questions...
View ResourceIn this session, participants will learn about the benefits of postsecondary education scholarships, identify potential scholarships that could benefit their student(s), and review the requirements for the FAFSA.
View ResourceThe College2Career Forum: University of Oklahoma Engineering (OU Engineering) program focuses on career exploration in STEM while visiting a postsecondary institution (PSI) campus. Students will tour the OU Rawl Engineering Practice Facility (REPF) on OU's campus, visit project bays and the REPF machine...
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