How many of you struggle with getting your students to think deeper? The Harvard Graduate School of Education has an amazing website that offers a "toolbox" of Thinking Routines. Be sure to check it out!
My inter-school lesson partner and I incorporated Global Perspectives into the Classroom: We used I See, I Think, I Wonder to first explore the countries we are studying in class. They started by making observations using street view on Google Maps. The students then thought about where things were and why they were at each location.