All Modules 18-Design and Technology - Module 3 | Page 21

Thinking Routines: What is Missing
Creative Questions
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Using real tools such as telephones or
computers help students observe and identify
how technology evolved through years!
Thinking Keys: Form Key: Observe,
identify, describe. What is it like? What
makes

this

unique?

Change

Key:

Movement, Adaptation, Sequence, Growth.
What is the sequence? How is it changing?
Thinking Routine: The Elaboration Game: Observe

Describe

Elaborate

Add

Repeat Process

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Promote creativity and imagination. “What is Missing” from the sequence? What will come
next? How a new telephone will look like? Can we draw it, create it and design it? Once you
complete the project encourage students to say a “Headline” for their invention that captures
the most important aspect to keep in mind.

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Choose the right technology or tool for a task. Choose/Pair/Share.