Thinking Routine: What Makes You Say That?

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What makes you say that?

A thinking routine for building explanations

  1. Look at this [image, video, text, object, situation]
  2. What’s going on?
  3. What do you see that makes you say that?

Source: Artful Thinking, Project Zero

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