Higher Level Thinking Higher Level Thinking Questions Books Australian Editions Light the fires of your students’ minds with this series of question books. In each book you will find questions, questions, and more questions for 16 of the most popular themes and topics for that subject. But these are no ordinary questions. They are the important kind—higher-level thinking questions—the kind that stretch your students’ minds; the kind that tap your students’ natural curiosity about the world; the kind that rack your students’ brains; the kind that sharpen your students’ thinking skills. Inside you will find a seemingly endless array of intriguing, mind-stretching questions and activities. Each book is spilling over with questions designed to engage and develop the spectrum of higher-level thinking skills. Add an invaluable higher-level thinking component to what you already teach. Make learning exciting, more engaging and more effective. You can almost see your students’ brains growing as they discuss these questions, share their thinking journal entries, and ask and answer their own higher-level thinking questions. Use these books to easily integrate critical and creative thinking skills into your daily lessons. Give your students the most valuable skills they can acquire—the desire to think and the power to question. 160 pages. Each book • $34.95 • • • • • •
Biology BQB Chemistry BQC Developing Character BQCD Intermediate Literature BQIL English BQLA Life & Earth Sciences BQLS
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Cooperative Learning & HigherLevel Thinking All Years Australian Edition
This classic, best-selling book will show you how to get students to generate higher-level thinking on any topic. Students sharpen their thinking skills and dig deep into the content as they ask and answer higherlevel thinking questions. Includes hundreds of activities for English, art, humanities, maths, science and literature; and ten detailed cooperative learning, higher-level thinking lesson plans across the cur riculum, with blacklines. 284 pages. BWCT • $44.95
Thinking Questions SmartCard
Skyrocket critical and creative questions in your classroom with carefully crafted questions. One of the most frequent and important thing a teacher does is ask questions. In fact, teachers ask up to hundreds of questions per day. This easyreference card is designed to help you ensure that your questions engage and develop your students' multifaceted thinking skills. It includes a discussion of fat vs. skinny ques tions, highconsensus vs. low-consensus questions, and true vs. review questions. It overviews the importance of criti cal and creative questions, and links classroom questions to developing thinking skills. Inside, you will find over 100 reusable question starters for 36 types of thinking. The question starters are great to enrich your questions and they're terrific for the student-generated questioning activities described on the back. Keep this little SmartCard handy and remember Einstein's advice, "The important thing is to never stop questioning." TTQ • $6.00
Question Spinners
A teammate gives the spinners a whirl and randomly generates one of 36 possible question starters across the levels of thinking—”What Is?,” “How Might?,” “What Would?,” and “Why Can?” Use the Question Spinners before a lesson to have students generate questions about what they want to learn, during a lesson to create thinking about the content, and after the lesson for reflection on what was learned. Students are so absorbed asking and answering their own questions that you are free to circulate from team to team for authentic assessment. MSQS • $5.00
ThinkTrix SmartCard
ThinkTrix is a simple strategy to create powerful thinking questions that enhance students’ thinking about any subject. Use the “Thinking Matrix” to develop questions, worksheets and tests that promote seven fundamental types of thinking: Recall, Cause/Effect, Similarity, Difference, Idea to Example, Example to Idea and Evaluation. Students can also use ThinkTrix to come up with their own higher-level thinking ques tions to ask teammates and classmates. Teach your students the seven fundamental types of thinking with definitions, question starters and curriculum examples. TTT • $6.00
Logic Line-Ups All Years Australian Edition
Miguel Kagan Develop your students’ thinking skills with hands-on cooperative logic activities. You copy the provided picture cards and clues for your students. They work in teams to figure out how to use the clues to line up their cards in the correct order. Build your students’ deductive thinking skills, spatial reasoning, spatial vocabulary and teamwork skills with these 72, ready-to-use, logic activities. You’ll find problems, answers and reproducible, line-up cards for 12 popular themes: farm, bugs, dinosaurs, fantasy, holidays, nutrition, occupations, outer space, pets, seasons, shapes and under the sea. Includes full-page, reproducible cards for whole-class activities, and quarter-page cards for the team, pair and independent activities described. Learning how to think has never been so much fun. BKLL • $21.95
Question Dice
When it’s time to create thinking questions about the learning topic, teams pull out their question Dice. They roll this pair of quiet, foam dice. Each new roll yields a new question starter: “What Might?”. “Why Is?”, “Who Can””. You will be amazed how terrific students’ questions are, how much thought they put into the questions and answers using this simple tool. MLQ • $8.00
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