Figures of Speech – Teach a Kid to Argue

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, [...]

Kids Who Think!

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

American Mensa | Games
29/3/09 – Thinking Skills: word, number and logic games.

educational-origami » Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

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

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

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 [...]

Classifying Thinking Skills Objectives

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

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

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.

MindMeister – think together

MindMeister – think together – create, collaborate on and share mind maps.