Feb 2018

This month’s strategy is the   Routine. This routine provides a structure for students to engage in an investigation, inquiry, or experimentation. 

• Predict: What do you think will happen?
• Gather: Carry out your investigation, inquiry, or experiment and collect data, information, and evidence as you do.
• Explain: Review your data to build an explanation for why things happened as they did.

 
The routine easily makes sense for the science or math classroom, but there are additional ways that it can be applied to other subject areas.  One teacher shared the following about this routine on the “Making Thinking Visible” Facebook page: 

Look for this routine in the upcoming book Making Thinking Visible 2.0 by Ron Ritchhart.  
 
The PG & E Routine will be added to the RCSThinkfromtheMiddle website.  Please share with me your use of this routine as I would love to be able to add your student work samples, videos, and reflections as well to enhance our website.   
 
Please contact me if I can be of help to you in designing your lesson, or if you would like to be added to the website in some way (student samples, videos, reflections).  I look forward to working with you.