Synthesis Questions
Questions that challenge the student to organize and synthesize information.
Frame synthesis questions in a way that encourages students to engage in creative and original thinking.
Use of Synthesis Questions
Use synthesis questions to ask the learner to incorporate integrated knowledge and combine elements into patterns not clearly visible before.
Key Crafting Words
- Create, make, develop
- Choose
- Do, tell
- How would you test
- Propose an alternative
- Solve the following
- Plan, design
- Make up, compose
- Formulate
- How else would you
- State a rule
Example
Work together as a team to write a fictitious short story about a natural disaster in this town.
Technology and Rationale
Synthesis requires that students consider alternative possibilities and create new solutions. Technology can provide students with an educational environment that encourages their thought processes and exposes them to their classmates' ideas.