Generalizations from the Research
1. Students should receive explicit guidance in identifying similarities & differences.
2. Students should independently identify similarities & differences.
3. Students should represent similarities & differences in graphic & symbolic form.
4. Studentes can identify similarities & differences in a variety of ways.

Classroom Recommendations
1. Teach students to use comparing, classifying, metaphors, and analogies.
2. Give students a model of the steps for engaging in the process.
3. Use a familiar context to teach students these steps.
4. Have students use graphic organizers as a visual tool to represent the similarites & differences.
5. Guide students as they engage in this process. Gradually give less structure & less guidance.

Technology Integration

Web resources	More resources	Homework resources
Edublogs Edublogs sample	K-8 GLCEs	Go2Web2.0 Skim this web page. Choose ONE tool that you could use. Put the link in one of the cells below. Add your initials.
21 Classes	High School Curriculum	BD Dipity Timeline Creator
Find a blog Kathy Schrock's Picks Blogger's Choice Awards Blogs on Ed'l Blogging	Students without email	KD Protagonist Story Creator
RSS Google Reader		mbbeanbag
	One True Media	VB Weather Around the World
Survey Monkey details	BeFunky	NMSoundsnap
PollDaddy Example	PictureTrail	JC Save the World
Google SS forms	Glass Giant	JS 280 Slides
Google Forms tutorial	StainedGlass Collage	ABLifehaps
Bug Catcher!		DG ZoomIn
Individual wiki pages
Reflection Blog