Thinking Routine: Same – Different – Gain

SAME-DIFFERENT-GAIN 

A routine for purposeful and thoughtful comparisons

Identify the two items you would like to compare [e.g. stories, places, cases, situations, texts, objects] Look and examine each closely . . . take your time:

What do you see that is the same across the two? Name commonalities and patterns

What do you see that is different? Name the differences you observe

What do we gain from comparing the two?

NOTE: THIS ROUTINE IS BEING PILOTED

Source: ID & Global, Project Zero