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Analyse it- 10-minute Activators
Brilliant 10-minute analysis activators! Students use classifying skills and Venn diagrams to develop critical thinking skills: list attributes of common items; analyse and compare items; find the Odd One Out; analyse and classify visually. Encourages analytical thinking as well as though READ MORE

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Attribobs
Another disarmingly simple yet challenging card game that becomes as complex as you want it to! Improves vocabulary, analytical thinking, and creativity, often with much laughter! Involves critical & creative thinking - what attributes do the 2 items have in common? Students can play choosin READ MORE

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Brain Revvers Bk 1
YR 3-4
Stimulating warmer-uppers designed to give you 5 to 10-minute activities to rev up your students' brains and get them into gear for thinking! Compiled from various ThinkShop best-sellers, with some new Brain Revvers added in to the mix. All are aimed at higher-level thinking; the READ MORE


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Brain Revvers bk 2
Years 4-5
Stimulating warmer-uppers designed to give you 5 to 10-minute activities to rev up your students' brains and get them into gear for thinking! Compiled from various ThinkShop best-sellers, with some new Brain Revvers added in to the mix. All are aimed at higher-level thinking; t READ MORE


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Brain Revvers bk3
Book 3, Year 7-10
Stimulating warmer-uppers designed to give you 5 to 10-minute activities to rev up your students' brains and get them into gear for thinking! Compiled from various ThinkShop best-sellers, with some new Brain Revvers added in to the mix. All are aimed at higher-level thi READ MORE


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Can You Find Me? (K - 2)
A WONDERFUL book (K-2) for comprehension and thinking: full of colourful rhyming riddles that will jump-start young minds into reading-readiness, science, maths, and social studies. Children beg to do more of these! Children also develop critical thinking and listening skills. Designed for rea READ MORE

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CORNELL Critical Thinking Tests
The two booklets can be used as a teaching tool or as a formal evaluation of critical thinking abilities. Very popular with students; they have to use critical thinking to answer questions as a storyline unfolds, based on what they have read so far. For example, in Booklet X you are a spac READ MORE

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CoRT Thinking Skills Books
$44 per book in the series. Click on title for details or to purchase.
For the teacher who wants to get more serious about thinking skills, here are Edward de Bono's classic teachers' guidebooks to teaching thinking skills as tools. More rigorous and specific tools READ MORE


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  CORT 1: PMI etc: $42
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Developing a Thinking Classroom
Wanting a thinking skills curriculum for your school? Yet another great thinking skills book by Clinton Golding, aimed to help teachers support students in becoming more thoughtful thinkers and questioners. Includes background information and a series of effective thought-provoking exercis READ MORE

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Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8
Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8 breaks each essential into sample lessons that include sample data, discussion questions, and tools such as graphic organisers and analogies. This guide provides clear and simple explanations for engaging students in meaningful and hands-on, minds-on READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Elizabeth Hammerman
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First Poems for Thinking
All poetry is magic.. 30 poems old and new for young children to share, enjoy, think about, and discuss.
Sample key questions about Robert Fisher's poem I'd rather be- What choices have you got? And about the poem Secret Things - Is it a good thing to keep secrets?

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First Stories for Thinking
Contains thirty multicultural stories that will captivate your students and provide the basis for much thinking and discussing. Complete with teaching guide, discussion plans and thinking activities for each story. Sample questions from First Stories for Thinking. What does pretending mean READ MORE

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FREEDOM PK cards , all levels
Addressing concepts of Freedom vs Oppression; Right vs Wrong; Fair vs Unfair; Privilege/Right vs Luxury, Indulgence.. an questions like "Do you have freedom if you have to wear a uniform?", "Is freedom saying what you think?", and "Does freedom involve wars?"- guaranteed to get your students READ MORE

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Games for Thinking
Children (and adults) love playing games, and this resource will promote thinking and learning while they play. 120 stimulating, easy-to-play games grouped as language, logical-mathematical, and visual spatial kinaesthetic games; each game complete with discussion plans and thinking activi READ MORE

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Graphic Thinkers
Need tools to help your students to organise their thinking? And to get them using higher-level thinking? Then this is the book for you! This set of graphic organisers will encourage broader and deeper thinking and teach problem-solving strategies such as analysis and ranking using criteri READ MORE

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Great Debating Ideas
Want to get your students debating, thinking and talking? Well here's the book you've been searching for! Ideal for stimulating oral ability, thinking and formal debating skills. This resource not only provides 101 high-interest topics to debate, but offers 'starter packs' to get students READ MORE

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ISBN: 1876973870
AUTHOR: Ron Shaw
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He Huanga
Maori-language version of Attribobs. A great game for fun reinforcement of vocabulary, spelling and phonics of maori words and objects, as well a a real booster for thinking skills. Students (and adults!) have to think creatively and critically to analyse objects for similarities. The game READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards, translated by Ross Gregory
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Hot Units book 3
Plug these hot units right into your classroom. Three books in this series, chock full of Bloom's-based units to extend your class units. A wealth of activities to easily incorporate higher-level thinking into your curriculum, or as extension activities.Topics include: Bk 3 (Y 7-10) Ticket T READ MORE

Price: $44.00
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AUTHOR: Elaine Le Sueur
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HOT Units, Bk 1- Higher Order Thinking
Plug these hot units right into your classroom. Three books in this series, chock full of Bloom's-based units to extend your class units. A wealth of activities to easily incorporate higher-level thinking into your curriculum, or as extension activities.Topics include: Bk 1 (Y 1-4) Dinosau READ MORE

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HOT Units, bk 2- Higher order Thinking
Plug these hot units right into your classroom. Three books in this series, chock full of Bloom's-based units to extend your class units. A wealth of activities to easily incorporate higher-level thinking into your curriculum, or as extension activities.Bk 2 topics (Y5-8) include:A Class Mus READ MORE

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How To Teach Thinking Skills
AT LAST! A practical introduction to teaching thinking skills. Includes enough theory for thorough comprehension, as well as a substantial Toolbox of ready-to-use activities to get your class really thinking! Truly a best-seller. Some schools are buying one for each teacher or one for each READ MORE

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Integrating Thinking In Maths
Contains a wealth of strategies and photocopiable sheets for integrating thinking skills into maths. From Interdisciplinary Units, to MI, to Bloom's activities, Williams' Taxonomy, Co-operative Learning...it's all here! Addresses manipulatives, calculators, set theory, applied maths, stati READ MORE

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Inventions Unlimited!
A treasure-trove! Includes Bloom's activities, worksheets for inventing in the real world, and techniques for never-ending inventing! So flexible it can be used as a class unit or for enrichment to meet many Achievement Objectives. READ MORE

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Leading Questions
"We expect leaders to be skilled at managing complexity and planning for the unthinkable. Perhaps the most enabling tool to support such leadership is effective questioning."
How can leaders and teachers of schools, corporations, hospitals, small businesses and government learn to hand READ MORE


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AUTHOR: Jamie McKenzie
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Learning to Question, to Wonder, to Learn
This new book from Jamie McKenzie shows how teachers can equip young minds with questioning strategies that will prepare them to wrestle with the most difficult decisions and problems.Jamie shares his best insights about sharpening the questioning powers of the young, emphasizing practical READ MORE

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Mathematical Reasoning bk 1 + manual

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Teaches children to REASON out answers and generate differen READ MORE


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PK: Thinking,Talking Exploring cards set
website special: NZ $9 each .
Fantastic way to establish students' PRIOR KNOWLEDGE and to form questions!
You’ll be AMAZED at what your students know and understand already - or perhaps misunderstand!
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Problem-Based Learning in Middle and High School Classrooms
This jargon-free guide to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) offers teachers an exciting student-centred teaching method that engages learners at all levels in middle school and high school. PBL lessons encourage students to work together in groups to arrive at sound solutions, as well as to develop impor READ MORE

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ISBN: 9781741017427
AUTHOR: Ann Lambros
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Question Starters- A4 posters
Want to get teachers and students asking thoughtful and rich questions?
LAMINATED set of Question Starters ready to go!
Only $10 more for the laminated set.
Forty colourful A4 posters; one for each week of teaching, to remind students of the different important ways of analysing i READ MORE


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Sophisticated Picture Books
H.O.T. UNITS for GIFTED READERS
Challenging and insightful units for those "difficult-to-find-resources-for" gifted readers. Complete with tic-tac-toe choosing matrix and self-assessment page. Popular picture books used include: Leonardo & The Flying Boy; A Present from the Past; The READ MORE


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Start Thinking!
Contains over 90 Thinking Skills starters to challenge pupils to think, enquire and reach beyond standard expectations. These mini-challenges exercise essential thinking processes such as questioning, comparing, prioritising, recognising patterns, and thinking methodically. Students can us READ MORE

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Stories for Thinking
Sample questions from Stories for Thinking: Are there such things as ghosts? What is the right way to treat animals? What is freedom? Another amazing book from renowned author Robert Fisher. READ MORE

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Talking Pictures: thinking through photographs
Incorporate photography into the curriculum with this exciting package of resources. Contains:
*a 64-page Guide for Teachers
* Sixteen laminated images for class discussion
* CD with 46 further printable images, examples of students' work, articles on digital photography, READ MORE


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Teaching Thinking-Philosophy
A practical, down-to-earth book covering many aspects of philosophical enquiry and thinking skills for children. Essential (and easy) reading for anyone seeking to develop children's minds, to build their self-esteem or to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Highly re READ MORE

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Team Challenges
A brilliant collection of 40 exciting, open-ended tasks that require teamwork, imagination and fast thinking. They can be used by teams of all ages and are ideal for enrichment, extension, and team-building. Enhance co-operation, risk-taking, creativity and higher-level thinking with activ READ MORE

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Thinking Start-Ups: Independent study cards
Analysis, problem-solving, predicting, inventing, generalising, classifying, debating...this book offers more than 100 activity cards based on a thinking skill or concept. In most cases the activity takes less than 10 minutes; every lesson begins with a brief definition; then a TRY THIS ex READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Murray Suid
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Thinking With Rich Concepts
Thinking Treasures for Philosophical Thinking in the classroom. Provocative topics that really make students use all the thinking tools and strategies at their command. Rich Concepts include: Happiness; Choice; Ownership; Identity; and 10 more that lead students into thoughtful, guided dis READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Clinton Golding
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Thinking, Talking, Exploring!
At least 20 statements on each topic are given, to easily cut apart and hand out for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organise under the headings True, Need More Info, or False. Encourages lively and thoughtful class discussion and analytical higher-level thinking,similar to d READ MORE

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USING WEBQUESTS in the Social Studies Classroom
This great book helps you respond to three important questions facing teachers today: -How can I be a more culturally responsive teacher? -How can I help make social studies engaging for my students? -How might technology facilitate my work and that of my students? This unique guide pres READ MORE

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Values for Thinking
Stories, prose passages, poems and pictures to start fascinating discussions of moral and social values - the thirty themes range from Ambition to Wisdom and include Courage, Sharing, Respect for the Environment and Self Control among others. For individual, small group or class discussion READ MORE

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What's The Alternative?
Help your students to make up their mind about various problem situations that commonly occur, such as Late For School; Friends; In trouble with parents; Put-Downs. Three sequential steps (Think Outside the Square, Underlying Problems, and Forming criteria) provide activities to show stude READ MORE

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