Concept Formation

Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!

Start with facts about Christmas trees. Group them. Label them. Can you boil it all down to one big idea?

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Conflict? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Here’s how one teacher uses inductive thinking to help students respond to literature.

With inductive thinking, students will work from parts to whole, discovering big ideas along the way!

Everything changes. But how does it change? Students brainstorm dozens of examples and boil them down to one big idea.

Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.