Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities

ISBN-13: 9781882664207 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 154 str.

Lynne Kelly

Opis

With its activities and lessons bursting with thrilling, mind-stretching enrichment activities, this book is designed to challenge gifted students. This guide helps fuel the creative thinking and problem solving that gifted kids are capable of, instead of merely accelerating their workloads.

Grades 5-12

Spis treści

Introduction, Classroom Applications of the Challenges, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Thinking about Thinking (Metacognosis) Challenges: 1. Get the Answers 2. Debates, Arguments and All-out Brawls 3. Show Me You (and the universe and an atom) 4. Blinding Blurb 5. Nourish and Flourish 6. Hero Worship (or: Elvis Presley is better than Albert Einstein) 7. Laughable Logic 8. A. A. Milne—Poet or Psychic? 9. Photocopying Mirrors 10.Dare to be Different: A Hypothesis 11.Problematic Probing 12.The Future is Cool (for Kold Korp.) Single-task Thinking:13.If Fred’s Hat is Purple, What’s the Name of Mary’s Dog? 14.Please Ignore This Heading

O autorze

With a background in teaching, Lynne Kelly started her writing career with educational books—10 of them—including Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities.

Susan Stonequist works at Sunset Ridge District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. She currently teaches seventh- and eighth-grade math courses and math enrichment activities for grades 6-8. She also taught mathematics and science in Avoca School District 37 in Illinois. In 1997, Susan earned her Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Susan presented at the 2010 National Association for Gifted Children conference. She has a supportive husband, Mike, and three wonderful children, Brendan, Connor, and Abby. She can be reached at stonequists@sunsetridge29.net.