Showing posts with label Thinking skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thinking skills. Show all posts

Monday, 1 March 2010

Thinkers keys - the alternate

Friday, 13 November 2009

Books for thinking skills

I have trawled Amazon and found some books for thinking skills/philosophy and added them to the book store. Hope you find them useful.

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Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Friday, 13 June 2008

Free chess for schools

It appears you can get free chess sets for your school by registering on this site.

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If you have success with this link please use the comments section to let us know.

Sunday, 24 February 2008

Time Fillers

What to do in those spare few minutes with a whole class...

A TA might just have to look after a class for a few minutes if the teacher is called away. What can you do with them

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Circle time activities are good too. One I use is:-
Children sit in a circle and close their eyes. I gently touch a child's head and they have to go and hide. I ask all the children to open their eyes and guess who is missing.

Also chinese whispers is a very popular one.

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Thinkers Keys

What are thinker's keys?

Look at this link to find out

http://www.bssc.edu.au/public/community/Big_Hill_Primary_School/Students/new_page_5.htm

Some sample questions

http://www.bssc.edu.au/public/community/Big_Hill_Primary_School/Students/Pohls_Thinkers_Keys/sample_key_questions.pdf

http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/stuv/thinkerskeys.htm

Blueliz from the forum made these thinkers keys. Click on the image to enlarge, right click and save to your computer. You can then insert them into a word file set for landscape, print and laminate for use with children. Thank you Blueliz