Pedagogical toolbox

Explore our collection of pedagogical tools, curated to equip you to adapt or design teaching sequences, or to provide professional learning for you and your colleagues.

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Gallery walk

A gallery walk is a collaborative discussion strategy that provides an opportunity for feedback: student to student, and teacher to student.

Collaborative culture, Inquiry, Representations

Investigation planner

An investigation planner is a scaffold that supports students to plan, conduct, record and represent data and information.

Adaptive teaching, Assessment, Inquiry

Making sense of teacher talk

Teacher talk is a major part of the teacher’s craft in supporting student learning.

Inquiry, Representations, STEM

Mystery box

The mystery box activity is designed to support students’ understanding of how scientists base their conclusions on available evidence in the form of observations. 

Adaptive teaching, Collaborative culture, Creative & critical thinking

PROE

PROE is a tool to engage students in the investigative process and support deep thinking.

Assessment, Creative & critical thinking, Inquiry

Providing formative feedback

Formative feedback is a tool that supports student development of high-quality science literacy representations and guides student learning.

Adaptive teaching, Assessment, Representations

Question Formulation Technique

The Question Formulation Technique outlines four steps for students to generate, refine, and select useful questions. 

Creative & critical thinking, Inquiry, STEM

Representing in science

Learning science involves understanding how to interpret and use multimodal representations of phenomena: diagrams, 3D models, photographs, tables and graphs, and chemical or mathematical equations. 

Assessment, Inquiry, Representations

Science Question Starters

Science Question Starters can be used to model the way to discuss a claim and evidence for students.

Adaptive teaching, Collaborative culture, Creative & critical thinking