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 * Check out:** Intel Visual Ranking Tool

**User Friendly:** Very

**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.  
 * Description:**

**How I've used it:** I have used it to rank student preferences in a get-to-know you activity. I've also used it to faciliate discussion about the causes of wars and conflicts.

**How you might use it:** Order the steps in a science experiment Order the steps in working a math problem Evaluate the importance of something- i.e., different effects of human beings on ecosystems Evaluate the importance of a group of discoveries or inventions Evalaute the importance of different characters in moving a plot forward or resolving a conflict Evaluate the importance of different elements of style in a particular work **Miscellaneous:** Nice because a group can see how they are similiar to and different from other groups and the whole

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