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Identifying Similarities and Differences & Generating and Testing…
Identifying Similarities and Differences & Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Comparing
Process of identifying similarities between or among things or ideas.
Classifying
Process of organizing things into groups and labeling them according to their similarities
Creating metaphors
Process of identifying a general or basic pattern in a specific topic and then finding another topic that appears to be quite different but has the same general pattern
Creating analogies
Process of identifying relationships between pairs of concepts
Classroom Practice for Identifying Similarities and Differences
Teach students a variety of ways to identify similarities and differences
Guide students as they engage in the process of identifying similarities and differences
Provide supporting cues to help students identify similarities and differences
Engage students in a variety of structured tasks for generating and testing hypotheses
Model the process
Use familiar content to teach the steps
Provide students wit useful and relevant graphic organizers
Give students guidance as needed
Ask students to explain their hypotheses and their conclusion
Provide students with templates for reporting their work, highlighting the areas in which they are expected to provide explanations
provide sentence frames that help them articulate their explanations
ask students to create audio recording in which they explain their hypotheses and conclusions
Problem solving
Identify goals you are trying to reach
describe barriers ir constraints that are preventing you form achieving your goal
Experiment inquiry
observe something of interest to you and describe it
apply specific theories or rules to what you have observed