Question: How can we review or test science content knowledge – like vocabulary and concepts – while better engaging our students’ scientific skills – like analysis, which is found in the NGSS and BC curriculum?

One way I’m doing this is by using science riddles. Each riddle refers to a science concept or term. And, students need to look at the clues in the riddle to come up with the term.

Here are a few ways I’m using them in my class:

1. Posting slides on the projector as bellringers, for review or discussion. Have students discuss with each other what they believe the solution to the riddle is and how they know (drawing from their own knowledge and hints in the riddle).
2. Posting slides in my classroom as words students will learn during the unit.
3. Printing riddles onto my tests to assess vocabulary definitions. Instead of just having students provide the solution, I’ll have them explain how they came to their solution (by drawing on what they know and hints in the riddle).

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