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Figures of Speech - Teach a Kid to Argue
19/4/09 - "How to Teach a Child to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony." This could have great application in P4C / thinking skills, or just conflict resolution. Essentially, it focuses on arguments/persuasive rhetoric founded in logic, reputation and emotion. This could also provide the basis for an interesting speaking and listening or persuasive writing lesson.
Kids Who Think!
29/3/09 - "A Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside of the Box...Challenges will be posted weekly".
American Mensa | Games
29/3/09 - Thinking Skills: word, number and logic games.
educational-origami » Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
17/3/09 - Huge amounts of information on Bloom's Taxonomy and other aspects of thinking skills.
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
17/3/09 - Up to 8 users can collaborate on a document in real time. This free-to-use website could be fantastic for shared writing, brainstorming or ICT Club.
Kakuro - Cross Sums
22/2/09 - "Hot on the heels of Sudoku comes Kakuro. Think of them as the mathematical equivalent of crosswords. Also known as Cross Sums or Kakro in Japan they have recently come to the UK featuring in The Guardian newspaper.
A Kakuro consists of a playing area of filled and empty cells similar to a crossword puzzle. Some black cells contain a diagonal slash from top left to bottom right with numbers in them, called "the clues". A number in the top right corner relates to an "across" clue and one in the bottom left a "down" clue.
The object of a Kakuro is to insert digits from 1-9 into the white cells to total the clue associated with it. However no digit can be duplicated in an entry. For example the total 6 you could have 1 & 5, 2 & 4 but not 3 & 3. Sound simple? Be warned it gets hard and is as addictive as Sudoku."
Classifying Thinking Skills Objectives
26/8/08 - Clarifying what we want children to achieve in terms of remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating or creating.
Teaching to develop higher order thinking skills
13/7/08 - Coherent and interesting article, well worth reading.
Mathematical Challenges for Year 5 and Year 6
28/6/08 - Maths puzzles for Years 5 & 6, on the Lancashire GfL site. There are also links to resources for children from Year 1 to Year 4.
Applying Bloom's Taxonomy
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9/3/08 - Questions relating to Bloom's Taxonomy
- teachinglinks on 2008-03-09
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