Shape Detectives

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Teaching Strategies:

  • Use experience as prior knowledge as a basis for building new knowledge
  • Collaborative learning (working in pairs)
  • Guided instruction through scaffolding the Web Quest group or Web Quest individual partners
  • Instructional activities are learner-centred and emphasise problem solving
  • Ask probing questions (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
  • Use of manipulatives
  • Direct instructional teaching focusing on specific concepts and skills
  • Use scaffolding to make connections to concepts, procedures and understanding
  • Student Feedback through rubric