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title: Using Thinking Moves to Reach Deeper Scientific Understanding
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## 30-MINUTE INTERACTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION

# Using Thinking Moves to Reach Deeper Scientific Understanding

Create engaging opportunities to master new concepts and shift the cognitive load to students with focused thinking moves. In this 30-minute professional development workshop, we'll focus on the 8 Thinking Moves featured in Ron Ritchhart's book *Making Thinking Visible*. We'll focus on ways to make thinking moves a shared instructional practice and a common part of how students learn to deepen their own understanding as scientists and engineers.

In this interactive session we’ll learn:

- what the 8 Thinking Moves are

- how each move supports the development of understanding
- how to embed Thinking Moves into your classroom routines

Learn how each thinking move can be used as a tool to deepen students’ understanding of new concepts in science.

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| ![judy-higgins-1](https://www.knowatom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/LP_Graphics/judy-higgins-1.jpg?width=110&height=110&name=judy-higgins-1.jpg)   | **JUDY HIGGINS** 5th Grade Teacher and KnowAtom Educator Preparation Specialist Judy Higgins has 19 years of teaching experience. She spent the past five years teaching fifth-grade science at a large urban school district in Lawrence, MA. During this time, Judy taught science with KnowAtom curriculum and materials and experienced exceptional results in student scores and engagement. |
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