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Tag: developing creative thinking
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The What If? Box – Free Resource
Put Creative Thinking At the Heart of Your Lessons Viewed and Downloaded 24,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 168 creative questions to get you and your learners thinking…
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Subject-specific stingray questions designed to turn your learners’ thinking on its head
Stingray questions pack a punch. They jolt or surprise learners. They might turn things upside down, remove familiar assumptions, or ask learners to think from a completely different persepective. You…
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Ready-to-Use Classroom Synthesis Questions for Primary and Secondary
These questions are ready-to-use. They are synthesis questions, based on the fifth level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. You can use the questions as part of verbal questioning or as written questions.…
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Why using ‘What If…?’ discussions is a secret shortcut to creative thinking in your classroom
What If … ? Discussion Strategy: Explanation This activity is all about speculation. It encourages learners to discuss possibilities and to imagine what might be the case. It challenges them…
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Make use of this age-old drama technique to quickly and effortlessly stimulate discussion, minimal planning required
Freeze-Frame Discussion Strategy: Explanation A freeze-frame is a dramatic device. It is a point at which the ‘camera’ has stopped. The before and after are not seen by the audience,…