TITLE OF THE THINKING ROUTINE

Connect, Extend, Challenge

EXPLANATION

The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and the knowledge they already have in the first moment but it also helps to reflect on

what they are learning. It also encourages them to take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties. Sometimes students are not conscious about

their own learning, they are not aware they know many things that are important and interesting and this routine keeps a visible record of students' ideas.

RESOURCES

There will be a big mural at the end of the class similar to the one I add in the following page. Each group will

need to take three little papers to write their own thoughts on it, and later, stick them on the mural.

Here I add the papers they will need to take. Blue will be for connecting ideas, purple for extending ideas and

green for challenging ideas or concepts.

You can find more information about this routine in the following link:

http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/

03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/ConnectExtend_Routine.html

HOW AM I GOING TO USE IT?

The first time we will do this activity, we will do it all together so they can learn what it is expected with this activity. At the end of the first

session, the teacher will present the mural where there are different labels in different colours (blue, purple and green) and a question for

them to reflect and answer.

From the second day, the teacher will create 5 different groups, which will be the same as the ones they will end up working with through the

unit. At the end of each class, each group will share their thoughts for five, seven minutes, and they will need to take the three kinds of paper

and write their thoughts on it. Each group will go to their own mural and stick their little papers on it.