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The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge. It also encourages them to consider ongoing questions and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning. The routine can be used after students experience something new, such as exploring a work of art or completing a lesson, project, or unit of study. The routine works well individually, in small groups, or with the whole class.

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Connect Extend Challenge - 0

The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge. It also encourages them to consider ongoing questions and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning. The routine can be used after students experience something new, such as exploring a work of art or completing a lesson, project, or unit of study. The routine works well individually, in small groups, or with the whole class.

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A THINKING ROUTINE FROM PROJECT ZERO, HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Connect, Extend, Challenge


A routine for drawing connections between new ideas and prior knowledge.

How is the artwork or object connected to something you know about?

What new ideas or impressions do you have that extended your thinking in
new directions?

What is challenging or confusing? What do you wonder about?

Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine encourage?


The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge. It also encourages
them to take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning.

Application: When and where can I use it?


A natural place to use this routine is after students have experienced something new. The routine is broadly
applicable: Use it after students have explored a work of art, or anything else newly introduced in he
curriculum. Try it as a reflection during a lesson, after a longer project, or when completing a unit of study.
Try using it after another routine!

Launch: What are some tips for starting and using this routine?
This routine works well with the whole class, in small groups or individually. Keep a visible record of
students’ ideas. If you are working in a group, ask students to share some of their thoughts and collect a list
of ideas in each of the three categories Or have students write their individual responses on post-it notes
and add them to a class chart. Keep students’ visible thinking alive over time: Continually add new ideas to
the lists and revisit the ideas and quetions on the chart as students’ understanding around a topic develops.

Share your experience with this thinking routine on social media using the hashtags #PZThinkingRoutines and #ConnectExtendChallenge.

This thinking routine was developed as part of the Visible Thinking


project at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Explore more Thinking Routines at pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
© 2019 President and Fellows of Harvard College and Project Zero. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows users to share this work
with others, but it cannot be used commercially. To reference this work, please use the following: The Connect, Extend, Challenge thinking routine was developed by Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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