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Identifying Similarities and Differences
Students need:
  • explicit guidance in identifying similarities and differences to enhance understanding and increase the ability to use knowledge
  • independently identify similarities and differences to enhance understanding of and ability to use knowledge
  • Indicators
  • compare—identify important characteristics and use as the basis for comparison
  • classify—group similar things into categories
  • construct metaphors—identify a basic pattern in a topic and find another topic that appears to be different, but has the same basic pattern
  • construct analogies—identify relationships between pairs of concepts

    Using Similarities and Differences
  • Resources

    Teacher
    Technology Connections
    Student Templates
    Inspiration Templates
    Comparision Chart
    Venn Diagram
    Comparing Colors - green
    Comparing Colors - yellow
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