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Lesson Plans
- Provides exercises to improve conflict resolution skills. Has activities identified with Language Arts, Social Science and Science, but actually the work is appropriate across subjects.
- Contains a description of 35 dimensions of critical thinking. 3-00
- Provides four lessons designed to help students examine conflicting views of events. 2-00
- Problem Solving lesson plans are in "Multidisciplinary" in the "Lessons and Curricula" of the Awesome Library.
- Provides lessons on self-esteem and problem solving. An Anglo-American perspective. 9-99
- Provides 11 tactics to encourage active learning. 3-00
Lists
- Provides dozens of sources of projects and facts related to invention. Oriented toward aspiring inventors and young adults.
- Provides dozens of sources of projects and facts related to invention.
- Provides sources for mind mapping, concept maps, brainstorming and more.
- Provides 21 sources of information to assist with writing research papers.
Materials
- Provides a graphic and resources for working with brainstorming sessions, a part of the problem solving process.
- Provides examples of tables or grids that can be used to enhance decision making.
- Provides a variety of resources for exploring graphic organizers.
- Provides graphics for working with brainstorming, comparing and contrasting, classifying, sequencing, showing causal relationships and decision making.
Papers
- Suggests a process and rationale for inquiry in children.
- Provides two dozen annotated articles on fostering creative thinking.
- Provides almost two dozen annotated articles on the nature of creative thinking.
- Provides six annotated articles on assessing creative thinking.
- Provides a framework for defining and assessing critical thinking. 3-00
- Provides a list of papers for the study of critical thinking. 3-00
- Discusses the three types of questions involved in critical thinking, factual, opinion, and reasoned judgment. 3-00
- Provides criteria for students to use in judging Web sources of information. 2-00
- Whether you agree or disagree with the position of this article, it is important reading for teachers and administrators. It uses an example of Hitler's writing to discuss and criticize criteria used in the assessment of persuasive communication. 3-00
- Provides the problem solving steps used by agents of the CIA to conduct intelligence work (spy).
- Provides an introduction to science and the processes known as the scientific method. High school and introductory college level.
- Provides an introduction for aspiring inventors.
- Provides introductory materials, resources for inventors, contests, and more.
- Describes how to ask helpful questions, using the development of a biography as the example.
- Provides more than a dozen problem solving exercises organized by topic.
- Provides formats for mind maps, thematic clusters and more.
- Provides a step by step approach for developing a research. 1-00
- Provides a case study in the invention and marketing of a product.
- Provides a rubric for assessing critical thinking skills.
Projects
- Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
- Provides prevention strategies.
- Provides lessons by grade level that strengthen critical thinking. Provides an original lesson and then a lesson remodelled using a critical thinking focus. (See the Remodelled Lesson Plans that are listed by grade level.) 3-00
- Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
- Cardboard Cognition's games provide dozens of problem solving games.
- Provides opportunities for online experiments related to sleep. 1-00
- Provides case studies in the invention and marketing of some specific products.
- Provides steps, processes and assessment for solving problems, such as determining a car to buy.
- Teaches science and genetics through problem solving. 9-88
- Provides activities to learn how to use primary sources, using different modalities.
Purchase Resources
- "Tribes is a step-by-step process to achieve specific learning goals. Students learn a set of collaborative skills so they can work well together in long-term groups (tribes)."
Standards
Worksheets
- Provides two worksheets. 3-00
- Provides calendar riddles, using a calendar and using a table worksheets for use by teachers.