Thinking Routines, like the ones from Agency by Design shown in this guide, are a way we integrate design thinking in core classes like Humanities, Science and Physics. These routines have been created to help understand the designed nature of the world around us.

From the Agency by Design website:

[…] Thinking routines are short, engaging, two-or-three-step patterns of intellectual behavior that are highly transferable across contexts. They are designed to be easy to use, easy to remember, easy to transfer, and to be vividly effective when used on a wide variety of topics. The idea is that when classroom instruction includes the frequent use of thinking routines across a range of subjects and contexts, students will become habituated to using these routines as a matter of course. […]”

This guide will illustrate in-classroom examples and will give suggestions as how to use different thinking routines from Agency by Design with different classes.