March is near—and so are the final months of the school year—so let's power up critical thinking skills for a strong finish. Here are a few opportunities for your students to reinforce and apply those skills meaningfully.
Engage students with topics like…
Making Inferences: This topic introduces learners to inferring—combining clues and prior knowledge to form ideas—a skill used every day.
Your kickball is stuck in the gym’s ceiling again.
An engineering problem that lets middle schoolers think creatively through the design process to solve a sticky problem.
Using teaching strategies like…
“Challenging students to solve a specific problem. When the emphasis shifts from replicating a design to designing a solution, students have a chance to be creative and hone their problem-solving skills.”
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