Intel Education - Visual Ranking Tool

Making a list is usually straightforward and requires little thought. But when it comes to ordering and prioritizing items in that list, higher-level skills of analysis and evaluation are put to use. The Visual Ranking Tool brings focus to the thinking behind making ordered lists. Students identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their work with each other in a visual diagram. This tool supports activities where students need to organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus. For example: Mrs. Ramey and I had our students rank the organelles (plant cell) in order from the most important organelle to the least important organelle. Students had to alsa provide a sentence explaining their reason for an oranelle's ranking. http://educate.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking