{"id":4969,"date":"2023-02-17T22:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2023-02-17T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:58:14","slug":"gotta-see-it-to-believe-it-make-thinking-visible-in-your-science-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2023\/02\/gotta-see-it-to-believe-it-make-thinking-visible-in-your-science-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta See it to Believe it! Make Thinking Visible in Your Science Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Making Thinking Visible <\/em>by Karen Morrison, Mark Church, and Ron Ritchhart is a text the EDT431 cohort women have been studying lately. Sometimes it’s hard to be 100% engaged by a book, but I found that this book has grabbed my attention with its interesting strategies for making thinking visible in class. Making thinking visible is so necessary because teachers can’t read students’ minds<\/strong> and need to be able to see their thought process. The strategies I have referenced in this post are just a few good ways to make that thinking visible<\/strong>. We’ll start with the activity Sentence-Phrase-Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sentence-Phrase-Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This strategy works great when you have a text that you’d like the students to read closely and make a lot of meaning<\/strong> from it. This activity guides students toward the core ideas <\/strong>of a text and helps them find the most powerful messages from the passage that they can then share with the class. Here’s how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Give the students the text and allow them to read, after instructing them to keep an eye out for particularly attention-grabbing elements <\/strong>(a sentence, a phrase, a word)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Students are looking for powerful, engaging, provoking, interesting, and meaningful parts <\/strong>of the text. Encourage them to look for a sentence that captures the main idea<\/strong> of a text, a phrase that gives them pause, and a word that makes them wonder or think critically<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Students share out their sentence, phrase, and word. Allow the students to lead the discussion, eventually talking about the overarching themes of the text. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I have created an example of a Sentence-Phrase-Word activity that you are welcome to download.<\/strong> It deals with geology and the lithosphere as a general theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n