Gifted Students, Thinking Skills and ICT!

Introduction to Thinking Skills

Thinking Fountain	Critical thinking & Problem solving skills (links)
Creative and Critical Thinking Skills

Brainstorming

Bloom's Taxonomy

Kent School District

Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking

Bloom's Poster	A4 Posters
Experiment Form

Planning with Bloom examples

Planning Sheet	Celebrations
Batteries	First Fleet
Frogs	Government
Rocks	Insects
Investigate a book	Dinosaurs
Rocks and Minerals	Oceans
Plants	Planets
Weather

Thinker's Keys

Key Template 1	Key Template 2
Key Template 3	Key Template 4
Alphabet your holidays	A4 posters
Planning Sheet	Download Tony Ryan's Books Thinker's Keys Mindlinks Clever Country

Thinker's Keys Contracts

	Ho! Ho! Ho! (Christmas) (231 KB) (Denise Tarlinton)
	People Who Help Us (221 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Let's Play! (Toys and Games) (414 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Wheels, Wings and Water Things (Transport) (380 KB) ( Julie Totoro, Shae Gregory and Louise Simms)
	Let's Get Physical! (Sports) (230 KB) (designed and adapted by Katrina Long)
	World Trip (323 KB) ( Alisa Altmann)
	Waste Wise Contract (1052 KB) ( Helen Cairns, Portland South Primary School)
	Creepy Crawlies (233 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Inventions, Machines and Change (149 KB) ( D Tarlinton, Jenni McKeering and Jo Sweetman)
	Dinosaurs (512 KB) ( D Tarlinton)
	Fairy Tales (321 KB) ( Celeste Koekemoer)
	Farms (258 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Food (366 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Monsters (209 KB) ( D Tarlinton)
	Myths and Legends (325 KB) ( Merle Kent and Nicole Day)
	Perfect Pets (536 KB) ( D Tarlinton)
	A Walk in the Jungle (309 KB) ( Denise Tarlinton)
	Under the Sea (236 KB) ( D Tarlinton)
	Wow! It Works! (Inventions) (352 KB) ( Katrina Long and Denise Tarlinton)
	ANZAC Contract (238 KB) ( Sue Urban)

Questioning

QMatrix poster

DeBono's Six Thinking Hats

White Hat facts, figures, information needs and gaps JP Poster poster	Yellow Hat logical positive JP Poster poster
Black Hat judgment and caution JP Poster poster	Red Hat intuition, feelings and emotions JP Poster poster
Green Hat creativity, alternatives, proposals JP Poster poster	Blue Hat overview or process JP Poster poster

Photocopiable Posters

Just a hat

Fairy Tale Unit of Work using 6 hats	6 Hat Planning Matrix
Information for Parents

Graphic Organisers

Inspiration Software
Graphic Organisers and Reading	Space example

SCAMPER

Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)

Incorporating MI and Computer software	Multiple Intelligences (UK site)
Janet Cochrane’s MI Webquest	Multiple Intelligences - Links page
Smart School Toolbox

Units of work

www.cap.nsw.edu.au/teachers/tech_based_resources/MI_pages/INDEX.HTM

www.cap.nsw.edu.au/teachers/tech_based_resources/MI_pages/MIBT_UNITS/html/RoaldDahl.htm

The Internet

Web Page Critical Evaluation Surveys

Sites

Enchanted Learning has early childhood activities and games.	Primary Games Educational Maths games for the primary classroom
Brain Pop	Fun Brain
The yuckiest site on the Internet	Soda Play
Cool Math	Interactive Tangram is a tangram based problem solving site.
Puzzlemaker eg crosswords, find a words, mazes, number blocks, cryptograms, fallen phrase	How Stuff Works Easy to understand explanations

Epals

Find electronic penpals for your class

Gigglepotz

Epals

Webquests

Tom March ozline.com	Oz – Webquests
Windaroo State School’s Webquests	On-line Research Modules
Shipwreck Island Adventure

R-7 Integrated ICT Projects

Mark Edmonds' 'Web Sleuth Adventures'. (Reidy Park PS SA)

Humpty Dumpty	Dairy Farm Web Quest
Royalty Web Challenge page	Possum Magic Quest
Animals WebFriends Adventure	Fairy Tales WebStarAdventure
Gods and Monsters WebSleuth Adventure	Medieval Times WebSleuth Adventure
Science Fiction WebSleuth Adventure	Venom Squad WebHeroes Adventure
Sailing With Flinders WebSleuth Adventure	Burke and Wills WebSleuth Adventure
Everyday Inventions WebSleuth Adventure	Australian National Parks WebTrek Adventure

Online projects

Data collection, cultural exchange, presentations, problem solving

OzProjects	Flat Stanley Project
Bean Files www.clima.uwa.edu.au/beanfiles “The Bean Files” were designed to lift understanding of how plants, animals and humans are affected by the environment, of where food comes from, of what is involved in producing it and looking after the land, and to show how science and agriculture are linked.	ASX School’s Sharemarket Game www.asx.com.au Invest $50,000 with the ASX only for year 7+. Held twice a year for 10 weeks.
The JasonProject

Online surveys and quizzes

Zoomerang (rather expensive share costs with consortium of schools) www.zoomerang.com
Create survey www.createsurvey.com	BeSeen (Quizlets) www.beseen.com
Pollit free web-based surveys or polls www.pollit.com	Survey Monkey www.surveymonkey.com

Computer Software

Hot potatoes

Hot potatoes is a software application that enables the user to create interactive multiple-choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap fill exercises.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked

http://lapasserelle.com/lm/pagespeciales/half.baked/halfbakedtests.index.html

From DECS ACT

Explore how to integrate this free of charge, web-based software into the classroom and it's practical implications for teachers to support student learning.