C.+Assimilation

=Assimilation, or quadrant C, is all about extending and refining knowledge to solve problems and create solutions. In this stage, they learn to integrate information and skills to deepen understanding. Here is where teachers want to help clarify information and help students avoid rigid thinking. A rigorous lesson might involve students observing and recording observations, analyzing patterns found, and predicting whether or not these patterns would hold with an unknown variable introduced. Eventually students would be asked to create hypotheses and test whether their reasoning was correct. Some web tools that might be helpful in this stage are storybird, Cacoo, or QuestGarden. = = =

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