Solve
Learning goal: Problem solving
The ability to quickly and effectively solve problems plays a major role in classroom, college, and career success. Help your students develop these essential skills using the FutureFit resources collected under the “Solve” domain. Skills highlighted in this domain include process acumen, computational thinking, and design thinking.
At the practical level, Solve focuses on skills and abilities that blend well with both core academic concepts and broader social-emotional learning goals articulated by standards organizations, states, and researchers. We’ve meshed the best and most relevant concepts and approaches into an accessible list of skills that is easy to understand and articulate to students, including:
- Computational thinking: The ability to effectively formulate and frame problem-solving strategies that can be applied and carried out by computers, machines, or humans
- Process acumen: The ability to clearly and effectively define and implement replicable processes, as well as to communicate the associated tasks, roles and details to others
- Design thinking: The ability to learn and apply techniques common in solving complex problems (i.e. in engineering and science) to disparate or tangential circumstances and situations
- Solicit assistance: The ability to ask for help, assistance and expertise when one’s own limits become an impediment to progress
Browse Solve Resources
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LESSON PLANS
Why Do Some Objects Fall Faster Than Others?
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ACTIVITIES
Problem Solving: Guess and Check
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LESSON PLANS
Salt or Sugar: Which Dissolves Faster in Different Liquids?
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LESSON PLANS
Do Objects Float Better in Salt Water Than in Fresh Water?
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem Solving: Find a Pattern
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem Solving: Choose the Operation
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LESSON PLANS
In Which Liquids Do Seeds Grow Best?
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem Solving: Draw a Picture
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LESSON PLANS
Which Metal Corrodes the Fastest?
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem-Solving
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LESSON PLANS
What Materials Conduct Static Electricity Best?
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LESSON PLANS
Hour of Code: Code an Animation for Women's History Month!
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WORKSHEETS
Money Word Problems I (Grade 2)
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem Solving: Make a Table
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LESSON PLANS
Does It Matter How Much Air Is in Your Basketball?
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LESSON PLANS
Practicing Problem Solving Lesson
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Analyzing Data
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LESSON
FutureFit: Easily Integrate SEL Into Your Existing Curriculum
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Problem Solving: Simplify the Problem
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LESSON PLANS
Problem Solving: Use a Formula
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LESSON PLANS
Can Cloning Make a Better Plant?