Chapter9


 * Chapter 9 Identifying Similarities and Differences**

__Generalizations__ 1. Presenting students with explicit guidance to identifying similarities and differences enhances their understanding of and ability to use knowledge. 2. Asking students to independently identify similarities and differences enhances their understanding of and ability to use knowledge. 3. Representing similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form enhances students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge. 4. Identification of similarities and differences can be accomplished in a variety of ways and is a highly robust activity.

__Examples and Web Resources__ 1. Compare/Contrast: Kidspiration, Excel graphs and charts [|bubbl.us.com] 2. Classification: Kidspiration, [|clip art] 3. Analogies: [|online analogies game] [|one or two player online analogies game] [|Miller Analogies online practice test] 4. Metaphors: