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CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING resources:

<span>Making</span> <span>A</span> <span>Decision</span>

Making A Decision

Help students to learn to make decisions. Thought-provoking exercises using topical ideas to catch students' interest- wonderful for groups, pairs or individual work. Start with gut feelings or red hat thinking, and move through to either Pros and Cons or PMIs. Effective tools for transfer to Social Studies, Language and Problem-solving situations.

Only $15

<span>What's</span> <span>The</span> <span>Alternative?</span>

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 students (and adults) that there are often alternative solutions to problems - the skill is in seeing them!

Activities can be done orally or as worksheets; supports creative thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as aiding in vocabulary development.

Also excellent for ESOL students and students with learning difficulties (RTLB teachers take note!)

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Only $15

<span>Graphic</span> <span>Thinker</span> <span>ebook</span>

Graphic Thinker ebook

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

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Only $15

<span>Creativity</span> <span>Extenders</span>

Creativity Extenders

Students can have a 5-10 minute discussion on the topic, and then choose from various individual activities to suit their learning preferences (writing, drawing, analysis etc).Really fires up their creative thinking! Best-selling compantudents can have a 5-10 minute discussion on the topic, and then choose from various individual activities to suit their learning preferences (writing, drawing, analysis etc).Really fires up their creative thinking!

Only $14

<span>Thinking,</span> <span>Talking,</span> <span>Exploring</span>

Thinking, Talking, Exploring

At least 20 statements on each topic are given, to easily print out, 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 debating but all working together as a "community".

Sample student responses included.

This will get your whole class involved!

Topics include Heroism, City Life, Courage, Immigrants.

Only $15

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Prior Knowledge: card sets $3 each

AWESOME method of encouraging open discussion, resulting in finding out prior knowledge as well as encouraging Deep Questions. A really fun and enjoyable activity; all instructions provided. Simply print (a4), laminate, then cut apart for year-to-year use!

A TESTIMONIAL:

"Thank you so much Jean! What a treat (your PK cards are); most appreciated.
I have shared your wonderful resources with the other staff and they are really impressed.
We worked through the fairness one in class yesterday and I was wishing I had filmed the discussion with my Year 6's. What a fantastic resource.
Thanks again." Justine, NZ

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ADVERTISING, level A PK e-cards

Samples: Is the sign outside your school an advertisement? A butcher's sign? A song? A sports team?.....One of many great testimonials for these sets:"My staff have been using these in their classes..

$NZ 3.00

ADVERTISING, B level PK e-cards

Samples: Is a timetable an advertisement? Is a church notice an advertisement? Is a uniform an advertisement? And heaps more provocative and discussion-stimulating questions! ..

$NZ 3.00

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

FREE!! DO NOT ADD TO YOUR CART! (**Read note above to download.) A resource that has surely stood the test of time! Check out the THREE free activity-planner sheets which will help you to write your own Bloom's activities. Students can be taught to do this too! Designed by Jean Edwards.

$NZ 0.00

CITY LIFE, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is a city "a place which has many amenities for people"? A place which has a Post Office? Has traffic congestion? ..

$NZ 3.00

COMMUNICATION, Intro level PK e-cards

Samples: Is the dawn chorus a form of communication? A rainbow? A baby's cry? ..

$NZ 3.00

COURAGE, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is it courage when a student challenges a teacher's point of view? When a thief breaks into a house? When a firefighter saves someone from a burning building?..

$NZ 3.00

DISASTERS, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample questions: Is it a disaster when a space craft explodes on takeoff? When the local dump is declared full? When your team loses in the final?? Packed with lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

DISASTERS, Intro level PK e-cards

Samples: Is it a disaster when school camp is cancelled? When the local dump is declared full up? When your Grandma is very sick? Packed with lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

ENDANGERED SPECIES, advanced level PK e-cards

Samples: Is a species which disturbs a local ecosystem, an endangered species? Smokers? Trees? Human teachers?? PLUS lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

ENDANGERED SPECIES, Intro level PK e-cards

Samples: Is the house fly an endangered species? A species which reproduces quickly? Big living things? The gorilla? PLUS lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

FAIRNESS, advanced level PK e-cards

Samples: Is it fair when you don't get a place in the school choir? When the teacher sets a deadline for an assignment? Is it fair to break a rule in a game? And lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

IDENTITY through Icons, advanced level PK e-cards

Samples: Are penguins an enduring icon? Fish and chips? Our flag? David Beckham?? And lots more like this. ..

$NZ 3.00

IDENTITY through icons, Intro level PK e-cards

Ia a Maori warrior an icon or not? Fish and chips? A kangaroo? Cadbury's chocolate? And lots more like this! ..

$NZ 3.00

IMMIGRANTS, advanced level PK e-cards

Samples: Is an immigrant someone who doesn't speak the language of the country they live in? Someone whose parents were born in another country? Someone shipwrecked on an island? A dog that used to..

$NZ 3.00

NATURAL, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is a health-store pill natural? Orange-juice? A vegetarian sandwich made with wholegrain bread? To feel happy??..

$NZ 5.00

PIRACY, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is it piracy to take someone else's idea and use it? To rent a DVD and then lend it to friends? People from shore, boarding a ship moored at the dock and taking items from that ship??..

$NZ 3.00

POETRY, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is a nursery rhyme, poetry or not? A rap? A painting? A database??..

$NZ 3.00

POETRY, Intro level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is a song lyric, poetry? A greeting card? Ballet dancing? A water feature??..

$NZ 3.00

PROBABILITY, advanced level PK e-cards

Sample cards:Is it PROBABLE that someone in our group will: become a teacher? Fight in a war? Take a holiday on another planet? Win Lotto??..

$NZ 3.00

PROBABILITY, Intro level PK e-cards

Sample cards: Is it PROBABLE that someone in your group will: break a bone? Go to university? Go bald? Break a world record??..

$NZ 3.00

RELIGION- PK cards eversion

Is schooling a part of religion? Or punishment? Ritual? Sin? Politics? Justice? Idols?.... ..

$NZ 3.00

RULES- PK cards eversion

Is it a good rule that children under the age of 10 must NOT be given homework? Or that students who are late for school must stay later after school? Or that TV is not allowed on air before 9 a..

$NZ 3.00

SPACE- PK ecards

SPACE: my space, Our Space, and Outer Space. Sample questions: is EXPLORING, going to the zoo? Or Looking through a telescope at the night sky? Looking in your toybox? Watching TV? Using Google ..

$NZ 3.00

STUPIDITY, advanced level PK cards

Sample cards: Is is stupidity or not, to join a gang? Not saving your work on the computer? Volunteering to fight in an army? eating sausages??..

$NZ 3.00

SUCCESS, advanced level PK cards

Sample cards: Is it SUCCESS or not if you achieve an 'A"? If you're the person in charge? If you feel good about yourself? If a baby bird teaches itself to fly?? ..

$NZ 3.00

SUSTAINABILITY- pk cards e-version

Is it probable that using aluminium foil is good packaging for sustainability? Or plastic bags? Or grape leaves? or plastic envelopes? or a flax kete? or a cereal box? or Christmas wrap?... ..

$NZ 3.00

Thinking,Talking,Exploring: ebook version

At least 20 statements on each topic are given, to easily print out, cut apart and hand out for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organise under the headings True, Need More Info, or ..

$NZ 15.00

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