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  • Creating the Environment for Learning
    • Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback
    • Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition
    • Cooperative Learning
  • Helping Students Develop & Apply Understanding
    • Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers
    • Nonlinguistic Representations
    • Summarizing & Notetaking
    • Assigning Homework & Providing Practice
  • Helping Students Extend & Apply Knowledge
    • Identifying Similarities & Differences
    • Generating & Testing Hypotheses
Best Practice Recommendations for Generating & Testing Hypotheses:
*Engage students in a variety of structured tasks (Problem Solving, Investigation, Experiments, Systems Analysis)
*Ask students to explain hypotheses and conclusions

Generating & Testing Hypothesis

Technology Resources for this Category

How Stuff Works
Problem Solving Games at PBS kids
Ehow Problem Solving
Problem Solving Games
CSI Investigations 
Interactive Investigations at NOVA
PhET simulations for science and math (all grade levels)

Budgeting and financial awareness using Smithsonian
Search Strategies at 21things4teachers
Search Strategies at 21things4students
Use of Google Docs or Office 365 to explain, comment, and collaborate on one of the four types of structured tasks


Link to Doc for Generating and Testing Hypotheses
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