Looking for a way to get your students involved in academic discourse? A way to have them learn to articulate their thoughts and engage in meaningful conversation with their peers? Try out Think Pair Share!
TOPICS COVERED
Topics covered include foundational principles of the distribution of water on Earth, including:
⭐ percentages of water found as saltwater and freshwater
⭐ location of freshwater sources
⭐ land features that contribute to water flow, such as watersheds/river basins, etc.
NOTE: Your students should have some prior knowledge of these topics before beginning this review to ensure they are set up for success!
INCLUDES
✏️ Student worksheet in 2 versions
- Version 1: Simpler pie chart graph for students to analyze
- Version 2: Complex water distribution graph for student to analyze
✏️ Editable sample Think-Pair-Share Google Slides to provide instructions for facilitating this mini-lesson
IDEAS FOR USE
Take your Think-Pair-Share up a notch by providing a safe, structured way to have students expose their thinking AND engage in academic dialogue! I use these to create opportunities for:
⭐ independently thinking by making observations and processing thoughts,
⭐ engaging with a partner/peer to hear and process similarities/differences and allow their thinking to grow as they consider new information, and
⭐ sharing out findings with the class – recognizing that learning is a social process, not an isolated one.
Use interactive notebooks like me?! Well, these fit in perfectly! Simply print the page (full size, landscape 11x8.5), fold it in half and glue it into the center of your notebook. Voilà! You are set!
