Higher Order Thinking Skills

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Higher Order Thinking Skills

• HOTS

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Knowledge Recall of facts, basic answers and
  concepts, terms - key words (define, relate,
  what, who, find, name, where,etc.)
• After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, you
  may ask, What was the little girls name?
  
  
  

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You Understand

• Comprehension Show an understanding of facts
  and ideas - key words (explain, illustrate,
  compare, show, demonstrate, infer, extend,
  classify, interpret, translate)
• Goldilocks - Why were there three bowls on the
  table?

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You Know How to Use It

• Application applying acquired knowledge, facts,
  techniques and rules in a different way - key
  words (choose, build, apply, construct, develop,
  interview, experiment, organize, plan, select,
  solve, identify, model)
• Goldilocks - What do you do when your cereal is
  too hot?

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You Can Break Down Information

• Analysis Identify motives or causes. Make
  inferences. Find evidence to support
  generalizations - key words ( simplify, divide,
  contrast, inspect, list, distinguish, discover,
  classify, inference, compare)
• Goldilocks - List three differences between Papa
  Bears cereal and Baby Bears cereal.

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You Can Create

• Synthesis proposing alternative solutions by
  combining elements in a new way - key words
  (build, create, invent, plan, solve, discuss,
  improve, choose, design, develop, change, test,
  imagine, etc.)
• Goldilocks How would it have changed the story
  if the Three Bears had been home?

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Making Judgments

• Evaluation Forming opinions and being able to
  defend them based on a set of criteria - key
  words (criticize, judge, recommend, support,
  justify, conclude, rate, select, estimate,
  assess, explain, prove, etc.)
• Goldilocks Was Goldilocks smart to go into the
  Bears house?

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Brainstorming

• Generates a large number of responses
• Helps to develop fluent thinking
• Ensures freedom of expression

• List all the uses of a spoon.
• How many ways can you use a hammer?
• What are ways we can help to reduce the pollution
  problem?
• How many ways can you measure a gallon?

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Viewpoint

• Look at characters, events, and objects from
  various points of view

• How would a turkey feel about Thanksgiving
  dinner?
• How would adults look from a babys viewpoint?
• How would an insect feel about Terminix?

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Involvement

• The student is asked to react personally to an
  unfamiliar situation.

• How would you feel if you were an atom being
  split?
• How would you feel if you were an old pair of
  jogging shoes?
• How would it feel to be an eraser on a pencil?

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Conscious Self-Deceit

• The student is asked to imagine that something is
  TRUE or did happen which is NOT TRUE or did not
  happen and to consider the consequences.

• What would happen if snow were green?
• What would happen if you grew to be ten feet
  tall?
• What would happen if up and down were reversed?

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Forced Association

• The student is asked to make connections between
  two unlike things.

• How is the sun like a mother?
• How is frost like friendship?
• How is the eclipse of the sun like a chocolate
  covered peanut?

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Reorganization Model

• The student is asked to describe the consequences
  of a strange or unusual condition.

• What would happen if the South won the Civil War?
• What would happen if you were one-inch tall?
• What would happen if we didnt have any books?