1 Picture is Worth 1000 Words

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1 Picture is Worth 1000 Words
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Thinking with Blooms Taxonomy in Mind

• Use of varied visuals to spur and support the
  learning
• Challenging students to answer HOT questions
• Engaging students in producing knowledge through
  HOT questions
• Satisfying students by providing tools for
  inquiring more deeply with HOT questions

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• The Griney Grollers Thinking Skills Test
• 1. What kind of grollers were they?
• 2. What did the grollers do?
• 3. Where did they do it?
• 4. In what kind of gak did they grangle?
• 5. Place one line under the subject and two lines
  under the verb.
• 6. In one sentence, explain why the grollers were
  grangling in the granchy gak. Be prepared to
  justify your answer with facts.
• 7. If you had to grangle in a granchy gak, what
  one item would you choose to have with you and
  why?

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Moral

• Students can answer low-level questions without
  thinking.
• Students enter/exit classrooms with no more
  understanding of what they've learned than "The
  Griney Groller" taught you!

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HOT Questions

• Higher
• Order
• Thinking

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HOT requires that we do something with the
facts. We must understand them, connect them to
each other, categorize them, manipulate them, put
them together in new or novel ways, and apply
them as we seek new solutions to new problems.-
Alice Thomas, M.Ed. and Glenda Thorne, Ph.D.
Center for Development and Learning
http//www.cdl.org
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HOT Questioning
Do I ask varied and searching questions?
COLD
Do my questions always a have one right answer?
Do I purposefully create cognitive conflict?
Do I allow for social construction?
Do I give time for extended answers?
Disequilibrium
Do I invite students to think about their
thinking?
Discussion
Do I give clear feedback?
Do I always know the answer to my questions?
COLD
Meta-cognition
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The important thing is to never stop
questioning.- Albert Einstein
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Planets of The Solar System
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Solar System Questions

• Think like a real estate salesperson. How would
  you market a home on Mars to a potential
  customer?
• Suppose the best movie of the year 2050 is filmed
  on Neptune. What do you think it will be about?
• You have just ordered a new dessert called The
  Saturn at your favorite restaurant. What will
  it look like and how will it taste?
• You have just landed on Venus. What might you
  see, hear, and feel?
• Do you think space exploration is good use of tax
  dollars? Why or why not?

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Earth As Seen From Space
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A Close Look at Mars
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Side by Side Comparison
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Comparing and Contrasting to analyze, evaluate
and create

• What are the similarities and differences? Which
  seem significant?
• What categories would you construct based on
  the significant similarities and differences?
• What interpretation or conclusion would you
  develop according to the significant similarities
  and differences?

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Side by Side Comparison
Create Higher Order Thinking Questions Be
prepared to share in three minutes.
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Chaining or horizontal threading - Dr. Mel
Levine connecting concepts together that have
some common element A student needs to do a lot
of horizontal threading so his concepts will be
connected to similar concepts.
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In order to do this, a learner needs to look
through his/her memory for things that seem
related to the new information.
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Lets do some horizontalthreadingabout
the textile industry!
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Lowell Mills, Massachusetts
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Women at Work in a Mill
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Boys Working in a Mill
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Eli Whitney American Inventor
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Video Resource
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Another Video Resource
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Reference Research Then
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Reference Research Now
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Video Resources
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Reference and Research

• Grolier Online
• Username stlucie
• Password reads
• World Book Online
• Username stlucie
• Password reads
• Thomson Gale Online Databases
• User ID student

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Sources of Information
Images and Videos to Spur HOT Questions

• DE Streaming (unitedstreaming) http//www.discover
  yeducation.com
• Thomson Gale - Junior Reference Collection
  http//destiny.stlucie.k12.fl.us

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Final Words

• The whole art of teaching is only
• the art of awakening the natural curiosity
• of young minds
• - Anatole France
• French Novelist (1844-1924)
• Curiosity - Prying - Interest - Probing -
  Inquisitiveness - Nosiness - Questioning

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1 Picture is Worth 1000 Words