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What are the best ways to make the teaching of causal patterns work well in your classroom?

Some classroom practices work better than others for supporting the kinds of thinking that the Causal Patterns approach encourages. The teachers who helped to develop these materials and tested them in their classrooms have thought a lot about how to make it work best. In this section, read "Points from Practice" from these teachers and hear what they have to say about it. Follow the links under "Supporting Techniques" to go into depth on the importance of modeling and developing a language of causality in the classroom or to go to FAQs to answer questions that you may have.

Video time: 37 seconds