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Think and link

Think and link shows three or four ideas from the lesson, each with a picture, and asks pupils to explain how they connect.

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How to run it

  1. Pupils note what each idea means.
  2. They draw or write the links between them.
  3. Share one answer and build it into a model.

Why it works

Explaining how ideas connect makes pupils retrieve them and build the links that organised knowledge is made of.

Good evidenceDunlosky et al., 2013Effective learning techniques

In other subjects

History: monarchy, Parliament, the ChurchGeography: weather, climate, biome
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