Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This strategy can be used to help students ask questions, review key vocabulary, and practice subject specific skills, specifically grammar. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
April 9th, 2024
Students practice creating and delivering concise presentations. Each student creates one slide and has exactly 30 seconds to present on either a content topic or a topic they are passionate about. Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
June 24th, 2024
This collaborative strategy can be used to introduce new material or to review texts that students have read. 30-Second Expert helps students summarize and synthesize information in a brief, reciprocal activity. Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
February 28th, 2024
This writing activity enables students to summarize their understanding of material, to evaluate understanding for gaps in knowledge, and to communicate this to their teacher. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
October 28th, 2022
In this summarization strategy, students focus on the main ideas of a text through collaboration. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
June 29th, 2023
The 5W Cube is a portable strategy to target open-ended questions (beginning with who, what, when, where, why, and how) as a means of exploring content and conversational speech. The 5W Cube helps students formulate questions and foster meaningful connections with content. This strategy can be used... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
February 20th, 2024
This collaborative strategy can be used to help a whole class or large groups come to a consensus of agreed upon ideas. 8-Up makes it possible for all students' ideas to be considered. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
August 22nd, 2022
This group brainstorming strategy is designed to promote thinking about a specific topic, concept, or text. Students recall prior knowledge and make connections to new learning via other resources. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
March 5th, 2025
This strategy promotes critical thinking for reflection purposes via news segments. Academic Action News allows students to format a presentation and share how the presented material is applicable for the individual student, the class, and other classes. Read more »
Created by: Ellie Weaver
April 9th, 2025
This strategy promotes critical thinking when analyzing information sources for research purposes. A-CLAP gives students a framework for evaluating the credibility of a website, article, book, or other source. Read more »
Created by: Adam Yeargin
November 30th, 2021
A mnemonic device used for reviewing, revising, and refining student writing. Read more »
Created by: Kelsey Willems
February 6th, 2024
This strategy engages students in organizing ideas into themes to summarize content or find points of agreement. Students respond to a prompt and work in groups to organize the responses into themes. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
July 24th, 2023