Stimulates thinking and allows students to generate vest amounts of information and then sort that information in an engaging learning process.

Compare and Contrast is to identify similarities and differences among objects, ideas, people, and events. 

Inquiry is places students in structured groups to solve problems by working cooperatively.

Involves direct observation of physical tasks, such as the manipulation of materials and objects. 

Involves expressing knowledge, ideas, and concepts in the form of digital audio, video, and animation.

Teachers direct student learning by giving feedback, checking for understanding, and/or encouraging reflection. 

A structured activity that engages students in individual or group competition to demonstrate knowledge or complete an academic task.

Refers to homework, worksheets, and computer practice in which students solve routine problems to reinforce concepts or skills. 

Inquiry engages students in posing questions around an intriguing investigation, making observations, and discussing them.

Any time is using internet-connected digital technology for asynchronous interactive learning, including web browsing, wikis, blogs, and social networking tools. 

An area set up in a classroom for short activities to focus on developing a particular skill and/or concept while working individually or in cooperative groups.

Verbal presentation of knowledge by the teacher to the students often supplement by visuals and handouts. 

Thinking deeply about an issue, taking a point of view, developing a logical argument, and defending a position.

Concrete, tangible objects students create or use to facilitate understanding. 

Rehearsal for the recall of facts using techniques for remembering information, including mnemonic devices.

Involves organizing logical notes for reference and using graphics, diagrams, and symbols to represent information. 

Includes developing exercise habits as well as incorporating movement into intellectual activities to enhance learning. 

Voluntarily engaging in intrinsically motivated, unstructured activities that impart joy, self-expression, and experimentation in which rules and goals are influenced by impersonal interaction and imagination. 

Presentation/ Exhibition is an oral presentation requiring students to organize ideas and express them in their own words. 

Introduces concepts through the use of problem solving skills on a real problem or investigation.

Requires students to integrate their skills and knowledge to create their own literacy, technological, or artistic work, as individuals or in a group.

Means students locate and retrieve information from several sources, such as library references, textbooks, other individuals and electronic databases via the internet. 

Service learning involves learning opportunities in which students perform unpaid work that contributes to learning and adds value to the community. 

Replicates the way skills and knowledge are used outside school, ranging from role playing to computer-generated virtual reality.

 Combines the elements of teacher questions, inquiry, and discussion around key topics, with the teacher asking probing questions as needed.

Students conveying events, ideas, or concepts in words, images, and sounds through improvised narration.

Restating the essence of a text or an experience in a new concise form in as few words as possible while still conveying accurate meaning.

Stimulate significant students thinking in response to thoughtful queries about connections with new information

Makes students organize their knowledge and reinforces concepts in any form from short quickwrites to multi-page research reports.

Provides students with new information and builds background knowledge through audio/visual presentation ranging from full-length commercial movies to short information or news segments.

Allows students to deepen knowledge through peer teaching or teaching younger students.

Presents opportunists for students to learn through on-the-job experiences ranging from job shadowing to full employment.