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| teaching think!ng |
| http://www.teachthinking.com/ |
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| BBC - Pinball -
Bounce Ideas Around |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/pinball/ |
| Fun tools from BBC
Scotlamd for mind-mapping (Dot-Dash), decision-making(Drop Zone) |
| and generating ideas
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| Open University - 60
Second Adventures in Thought |
| http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/60-second-adventures-thought |
| Six famous thought
experiments, from the ancient Greeks to Albert Einstein, that have changed
the way we see the world. |
| Subjects as vast as
time travel, infinity, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, are
squeezed into 60-second clips |
| that will tickle your
funny bone and blow your mind. |
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| TASC - Thinking
Actively in a Social Context |
| http://www.tascwheel.com/ |
| TASC is a framework
that encourages children to solve problems independently and creatively |
| Website includes
100+ ideas for getting started with TASC here
and case studies
here |
| More details on
using TASC (NACE website)
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| Thinkers Keys for
Kids |
| http://www.thinkerskeys.com/ |
| Thinking Keys in the
classroom
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| Examples of using
Thinkers Keys on a variety of topics
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| Education of G&T
students in W.Australia - suggested activities |
| http://www.det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/giftedandtalented/detcms/navigation/provision/suggested-activities |
| Large selection of
creative activities for 'Early and Middle' childhood - cross-curricular and
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| exploratree |
| http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ |
| Futurelab's free online
library of graphical 'thinking guides' - print them out or fill in and complete your
project on the |
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| Teacher research into using
thinking skills in the classroom (NUT) |
| Download PDF
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| Menon |
| http://menon.eu.org/ |
| A project, involving 11
European partners, aiming to encourage teachers' skills through
philosophical enquiry. |
| Includes
downloadable booklets: |
| 'Doing
Philosophy in the Classroom' - a handbook for teachers |
| 'Dialogue
on Dialogue' A resource book for the
'Developing Dialogue Through
Philosophical Enquiry' course for teachers |
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| Good Morning Children Ltd |
| http://www.goodmorningchildren.com |
| Low cost subscription
service (£10 per classroom) that provides new thinking skills resources to
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| project onto your whiteboard
every morning. A good variety of interesting activities divided up |
| into five age ranges from
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| Teaching Thinking &
Creativity - You are never too young! |
| Article on how and why to
adapt teaching thinking activities for children in the early years. |
| N.B. website no longer
available, download pdf file by clicking
here |
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| The Galactic Question
Center |
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http://galquest.blogspot.com/ |
| Lots of interesting
questions for philosophical discussion. |
N.B. this is a site
that is useful in providing inspiration for questions, rather than a site to
direct children to visit.Not all questions are necessarily suitable for children to discuss,and
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language in some of the comments may not be appropriate. For a selection of
questions from this site that would be useful with primary children click
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| Dialectics 4 Kids |
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http://www.dialectics4kids.com/ |
| Using Engels' laws of
dialectics to teach. Ideas for children from 4 years old up. |
If you've watched the
film 'half nelson' you will have seen some of these ideas being used
in the
classroom. |
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| Philosophy
for Children - Philosophical Questions from Children's Stories |
| http://www.mtholyoke.edu/omc/kidsphil/index.html |
| A good list of
story-books suitable for philosophical discussions with primary-age
children, |
| with for each book, a
review of the philosophical issues involved and a 'question set'. |
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| Society for Philosophical
Enquiry |
| http://www.philosopher.org/ |
| Christopher Phillips
has written some interesting books on philosophy including 'Socrates' Cafe'
and 'The Philosophers Club'. Article on his work in schools -
here. |
| This website has a
section on starting a 'Philosophers'
Club' with children. Leaflet
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| Challenging pupils
with a murder mystery |
| http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/challenging-pupils-with-a-murder-mystery-1749 |
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Staging a ‘whodunit’ can provide great
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| Sapere |
| http://www.sapere.net/ |
| Sapere is a UK-based
educational charity 'promoting philosophical enquiry as an important
dimension of school and college curriculum development'. |
| The site has an
overview of the development of P4C (Philosophy for Children). |
| View a clip from a
Sapere training video 'Your Granny or Your Goldfish'
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| Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy - Philosophy for Children |
| http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/ |
| Article discussing
philosophy with and for children |
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| Puzzles.com -
all sorts of puzzles - good downloadable puzzle sheets |
| http://www.puzzles.com |
| Go straight to the 'Puzzles in Education'
page
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Brainteasers & Puzzles - Science |
| http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/ |
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Brainteasers, Puzzles & Riddles |
| http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/braint.htm |
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| Lumosity |
| http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games |
| Games involving
memory, attention and problem-solving. |
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thinking-approach.org
- articles |
| http://www.thinking-approach.org/index.php?id=38 |
| Try 'The
Odd One Out - An Old New Game' and 'A
Puzzland' |
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Brain Food Realistic Lateral Thinking Puzzles |
| http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/latreal.shtml |
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Brain Food Tricky Lateral Thinking Puzzles |
| http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/lattrick.shtml |
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| Mindcipher |
| http://mindcipher.net/ |
| A collection of brain
teasers and logic puzzles. |
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| Neuroscience for Kids
- Brain Games |
| http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html |
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Brainy
Games page on the same site |
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| MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks |
| http://kids.mysterynet.com/ |
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Dyson UK -Telescope Game |
| http://www.dyson.co.uk/about/games/telescope.asp |
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Rush Hour -Online version of the Binary Arts puzzle |
| http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/rushHour/ |
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20Q.net - 20 Questions |
| http://www.q.20q.net/ |
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Logic Mazes |
| http://www.logicmazes.com/ |
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| 'Set' - a logic card
game |
| http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm |
| You can play an
online version of the logic game 'Set' by clicking on the picture. |
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Robert Fisher - Web
Resources |
| http://www.teachingthinking.net/thinking/pages/robert_fisher_webresources.htm |
| A selection of
interesting articles on thinking skills. |
| Some examples of
classroom activities
here |
| Article- 'Philosophy
in Primary Schools: fostering thinking skills and literacy'
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Intel Education Visual Ranking |
| http://educate.intel.com/en/thinkingtools/Visualranking/ |
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Intel Education Seeing Reason |
| http://educate.intel.com/en/thinkingtools/seeingreason/ |
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| Bubbledome S- Mysteries to
Solve |
| http://www.bubbledome.com/activities/mudAnts |
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| BrainBashers - Puzzles |
| http://www.brainbashers.com/puzzles.asp |
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| PedagoNet - Brainteasers |
| http://www.pedagonet.com/brain/brainers.html |
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| Puzzle Soup |
| http://www.puzzlesoup.com/ |
| A collection of 'rebus' or
'Catchphrase' type puzzles. |
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| Planet Perplex |
| http://www.planetperplex.com/en/index.html |
| Optical illusions and
puzzles. |
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| Archimedes' Laboratory |
| http://www.archimedes-lab.org |
| Puzzles, illusions and
paradoxes. |
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| Questacon - puzzles page |
| http://www.questacon.edu.au/html/puzzles.html |
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| Little Big Minds |
| http://www.littlebigminds.com/?content=excerpt |
| Read Chapter 1 of
'Sharing Philosophy with Kids' by Marietta McCarty |
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| The Great Enigma Challenge - word problems |
| http://stuhasic.com/enigma/ |
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| Samarost - online
puzzle
adventure |
| http://www.samorost2.net/samorost1/ |
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| Samarost 2 - online puzzle
adventure |
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http://www.samorost2.net/ |
| Clever puzzles,
beautiful graphics. You can buy the second part very cheaply (£5). |
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| Haluz & Haluz 2 - online puzzle
adventures |
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http://www.haluz.eu/ |
| More adventure games
in a style similar to Samarost. |
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| Motas - online point-and-click
adventure |
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http://www.albartus.com/motas/ |
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