Elevate Thinking and Creativity
Elevating Thinking and Creativity has always been at the heart of all I do, whether working with students or educators.
Sometimes it's as easy as taking a pause in your conversation and asking "What are you thinking about?" or "How does this make you feel?" or "Would you have made a different choice...or decision?" "What?" .... and .... "Why?"
Below you will find information and links to Curricular Integrations, Higher Order Thiking Activities, Thinking and Questioning Strategies, and resources used in my PD sessions on Elevating Students Thinking About Their Learning!
Curricular Integrations and HOT Activities
Elevate Thinking and Creativity Resources and Activities
Ian Byrd Byrdseed.com and ByrdseedTV.com Higher Order Thinking Math Activities
Byrdseed https://byrdseed.com - higher order thinking resources and activities
ByrdseedTV https://ByrdseedTV.com - rigorous interactives in all core curriculum. Byrdseed TV has inquiry and discovery based activities. Some free activities to try: https://www.byrdseed.tv/category/free/
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Gifted Guild's Guide to Depth and Complexity: Finding your way throught he Framework. Ian Byrd and Lisa Van Gemert Oct 2019
Kaplan's Depth and Complexity
Ian Byrd devotes much of his website to his work with Kaplan's Depth and Complexity icons. Check out his resources and his publication.
Gifted Guild's Guide to Depth and Complexity: Finding your way throught he Framework. Ian Byrd and Lisa Van Gemert Oct 2019
Games and Activities
SET Daily Set puzzle has 6 answers for each daily game. https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle
Ultimate TicTacToe
Play against the computer or a partner http://ultimatetictactoe.creativitygames.net
Play against another player by starting a game and sending them the link for the shared game. https://bejofo.net/ttt
Mastermind
Play against the computer with 10 Rows to Guess the answer to 4 peg puzzle https://www.webgamesonline.com/mastermind/
Play against the computer with 8 Rows to Guess the answer to 5 peg puzzle http://codebreaker.creativitygames.net
Boggler Online https://wordshake.com/boggle
Quidler https://www.setgame.com/quiddler/puzzle
Online Logic Puzzles
AHA Thinking Games https://www.ahapuzzles.com/logic/logic-puzzles/
Baron Puzzes https://logic.puzzlebaron.com https://logic.puzzlebaron.com/init.php
Math Playground Logic www.mathplayground.com/logicgames.html
Higher Order Thinking Math Activities
Yummy Math https://www.yummymath.com/
Open Middle https://www.openmiddle.com/
Math is Fun https://www.mathsisfun.com
Higher Order Vocabulary
Tyrranasaurus Prep: Prep for SAT And GRE https://www.tyrannosaurusprep.com
Tribonds and More
Minds in Bloom https://minds-in-bloom.com/try-tribonds/
Tribond of the Day http://www.tribond.com
Ian Byrd Byrdseed.com - great resources on HOT activities and resources
ByrdseedTV here is link for Free resources has several great ELA Activities https://www.byrdseed.tv/category/free/
Analogies, Sentence Structure, and more. Numerous curricular integrations in a variety of areas.
Starting Sentences in different ways https://www.byrdseed.tv/adding-variety-to-writing-sentence-starters-2/
Figurative Language https://www.byrdseed.tv/fancy-figurative-language/
Analogies https://www.byrdseed.tv/building-creative-analogies/
Greek and Latin Roots
Invent a word…and illustrate it https://www.byrdseed.tv/greek-latin-word-part-activities/
Inventasaurus https://www.desertmuseum.org/center/edu/docs/1-2_DinosaurDiscovery_invent.pdf
The Name Game https://studylib.net/doc/8659510/the-name-game---american-museum-of-natural-history
Higher Order Social Studies and Science
ESRI GeoInquiries
Inquiry Based Collection of Activities. https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/education/schools/geoinquiries-collections. Includes 15-20 short (15-20 min) activities in each of the collection categories: American Literature, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Government, Human Geography, Mathematics, Upper Elementary, US History, World Geography, World History
Getting to Know ESRI GeoInquiries - walk through tutorial for educators. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/939b0102d1bb4af380edc6d9de2e5cc4
Esri Home https://www.esri.com/en-us/home
Mission US - a Revolutionary Way to Learn History http://www.mission-us.org
Questioning Activity to Get us Started - See the World at Day and Night http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth
Design a Roller Coaster ~ Physics
http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/parkphysics.html and http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/index2.html
PHET Science Simulations
Sketchup
https://www.sketchup.com. Create in 3D! Inspire creativity and exploration.
Architecture tool that is also a great Geometry and 3D Art tool.
Free with a G Suite or Microsoft Education account and free basic personal account Can also be used with 3D printer.
What IF? https://what-if.xkcd.com/
Don’t ask students to solve question...ask them to think about what they would need to know in order to solve the problem. Brainstorm!!
Archive of Questions https://what-if.xkcd.com/archive/
PechaFlickr developed by Allen Lavine. http://pechaflickr.net
Paint the Picture in Your Mind with Words https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jdxjz0CrR5qKW4t8oX86CqyuuDgV52_4DXkwOG04K0Q/edit?usp=sharing
Thesauric Nursery Rhymes
Wacky Sentences - Put Colorful Words in separate bags....nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and have students draw to create wacky sentences.....then illustrate.
101 Questions...What’s the First Question that comes to mind? http://www.101qs.com/index.php
Dean Shareski http://ideasandthoughts.org/presentations/ Watch Dean Shareski's presentations on Youtube “5 Min of Creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGJ8X4V3Iw
Talk to Text allows students to tell their story into the computer and it will word process it for them - then students can edit from and improve upon the base of their story.....but most important....story is told.
Google Keep - sticky note option for generating ideas
6 Word Stories or Memoir
Start Powerful Image - Create a 6 word statement that goes with the image.
Start with a 6 Word Statement - Choose Image that conveys message.
Where should words go to impact image and message most.
What font goes best with the statement and image.
Library of Congress https://loc.gov Teacher Section - Lesson Plans and much more
Digital Breakout EDU http://www.breakoutedu.com/digital/
And More…..
6 Seconds of Science http://6secondscience.tumblr.com
Writing Prompts http://writingprompts.tumblr.com
The Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us
5 Frame Stories http://50ways.wikispaces.com/Flickr+Five+Frame+Stories
DS 106 Assignment Bank http://assignments.ds106.us
Big Huge Labs - editing in Flickr and more http://bighugelabs.com
Zoom by Istvan Banyai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMhUujrN4iU
One Take Video Challenge http://www.discoveryeducation.com/DEN/drlodgevideochallenge.cfm
The World in 2 minutes Video mini-documentary using images to tell a story over time http://www.mostwatchedtoday.com/tag/history-of-the-world-in-2-minutes/
Teach Thought by Terry Heick
30 Universal Strategies For Learning https://teachthought.com/critical-thinking/27-actions-that-promote-self-directed-learning/
Teach Thought. https://www.teachthought.com/author/terryheick/ Technology. https://www.teachthought.com/category/technology/
Depth and Complexity by Sandra Kaplan
Description of Icons from Envision Gifted http://envisiongifted.com/services/understanding-depth-complexity/
Universal Themes, Concept Attainment, Focus on an area, Various curricular applications
Bloom's Taxonomy and 3 Story Questioning Model by Costa and Kallick
Model in these links and directly correlates with Blooms Taxonomy.
Additional 3 Story Models....have a little different look based on who designed them. Also..one of them has the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes about 3 levels of thinking compared to stories.
https://cicobb.typepad.com/files/3-story-intellect.pdf
http://web.claibornecountyschools.com/resources/files/2015/08/costas_levels_of_questioning.pdf
https://content.dodea.edu/VS/csieportfolio_14/docs/Costa's3storyintellect.pdf\
http://mrdaviswh.weebly.com/uploads/7/9/4/0/7940379/three_story_intellect.pdf
https://island94.org/2009/11/Three-Story-Intellect-Model.html
Habits of Mind - Art Costa and Bella Kallick 16 areas for self directed learning. Questioning is one of them.
16 Habits of Mind list. http://www.chsvt.org/wdp/Habits_of_Mind.pdf
Describing the Habits of Mind - a little more info. https://habitsofmind.org/sites/default/files/16HOM2.pdf
Thinking Skills Resources
Information to support thinking and creativity.
Metacognition - Thinking about our Thinking
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/metacognition-gift-that-keeps-giving-donna-wilson-marcus-conyers
Neuroplasticity - article on training the brain to think in different ways
Critical Thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.
Critical thinking 1 http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766
Critical thinking 2 http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-concept-and-definition-of-critical-thinking/411
Productive Thinking - Hudsons model
Creativity is incredibly important in problem-solving – if you're not creative, you'll struggle to understand the issues surrounding a problem, and you're unlikely to identify the best solutions.
Productive thinking 1 https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/productive-thinking-model.htm
Productive thinking model 2 https://www.mycoted.com/Productive_Thinking_Model
Productive thinking model 3 http://www.designorate.com/problem-solving-hursons-production-thinking-model/
Productive Thinking 4 http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/prod.htm
Productive thinking http://gth.krammerbuch.at/sites/default/files/articles/AHAH%20callback/01_Branchini.pdf
Deductive Reasoning - Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.
Deductive reasoning 1 http://www.livescience.com/21569-deduction-vs-induction.html
Deductive reasoning 2 http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/types_reasoning/deduction.htm