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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
Videos of 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
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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)
here |
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Narrowing the Gaps
Pedagogy Project
http://www.narrowingthegaps.org/Teaching and learning
techniques involving collaboration and thinking skills for all age groups.
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Thinkers Keys for
Kids
http://www.thinkerskeys.com/Thinking Keys in the
classroom
here
Examples of using
Thinkers Keys on a variety of topics
here |
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Education of G&T
students in W.Australia - suggested activities
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/giftedandtalented/detcms
/navigation/for-teachers/provision/suggested-activities/
Large
selection of creative activities for 'Early and Middle'
childhood - cross-curricular and individual subjects. |
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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 exploratree website. |
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Teacher research into using
thinking skills in the classroom (NUT) Download PDF
here
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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' - handbook for teachers
'Dialogue
on Dialogue' -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
project onto your whiteboard
every morning. A good variety of interesting activities divided up into five age ranges from
under-5s to 11+. |
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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
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
the 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
here |
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Dialectics 4 Kids
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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Teaching Children
Philosophy - Philosophical Questions from Children's Stories
http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org
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
here. |
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Challenging pupils
with a murder mystery
http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/challenging-pupils-with-a-murder-mystery-1749
Staging a ‘whodunit’ can provide great
scope for enrichment, says G&T consultant Bob Cox. |
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Sapere
http://www.sapere.org.uk/
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'
here |
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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
here |
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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-gamesGames involving
memory, attention and problem-solving. |
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thinking-approach.org
- articles
http://www.thinking-approach.org/index.php?id=38Try '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
See also the
Brainy
Games page on the same site
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MysteryNet's Kids
Mysteries
http://kids.mysterynet.com/
Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks.
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Dyson UK -Telescope
Game
http://www.dyson.co.uk/about/games/telescope.asp |
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Rush
Hour
http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/rushHour/
Online version of the Binary Arts puzzle.
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20Q.net
http://www.q.20q.net/
Play the
game of 20 Questions.
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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.htmYou 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.htmA selection of
interesting articles on thinking skills. Some examples of
classroom activities
here
Article- 'Philosophy
in Primary Schools: fostering thinking skills and literacy'
here
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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 - 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
http://www.pedagonet.com/brain/brainers.html
Brain-teasing
puzzles.
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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.htmlOptical illusions and
puzzles.
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Archimedes' Laboratory
http://www.archimedes-lab.orgPuzzles, illusions and
paradoxes.
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