Isabel the Inventor

Introduction and Overview of Primary Education Thinking Skills, PETS

Meet Isabel the Inventor.

This character focuses on divergent thinking through invention. The emphasis is on seeing new, creative possibilities in ordinary ideas.  Students brainstorm to find many correct responses, use their imagination, and piggyback ideas from those of others.

Key Vocabulary:  

divergent, imagination, possibilities, create, brainstorm, unique, invent, creative, 

piggyback, ideas, unusual, fluency, flexibility, elaboration, originality

H.O.T.S. Club Activities (That is, H.O.T.S. for Higher Order Thinking Skills)

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