Students also have have an opportunity to apply creative thinking and problem-solving techniques. Materials needed will depend on topic of study. The activities will be designed for hands-on, experiential learning. Listed here should be standards suggested by the aforementioned documents. Students will usually have a finished product such as a lab sheet or an experiment product.
Rubrics are useful for scoring.
It builds on the appreciation, synthesis, and evaluation part of their learning. A goal of this station is to equip students with some creative problem-solving skills that will help them to confidently handle change and new situations. A variety of equipment and materials are used at the problem-solving station. Students and teachers can exercise creativity in selecting equipment to be used at this station. This station enhances the objectives of the manipulative station and provides an interactive thinking experience that allows students to pace themselves while exploring and developing problem-solving strategies and thinking processes.