Convert to Outlines

for writing

Ideas arethe

Focus

Organize,Update

orChange

Visual

Plan,Process

andPrioritize

Why?

• Brainstorming• KWL Charts

– What you Know– What you Want to Know– What was Learned

• Pre-Writing• Research Paper• Planning• Concept Mapping• Classification• Analogies• Comparisons

U

S

E

SUses

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

Rapid Fire

Brainstorming

KWL Charts

Pre-writing…

Paragraphs

Brainstorm

Students

Organize

Analyze

Synthesize

Produce

Evaluate

Higher level thinking skills

Language Arts

Book Similarities and Differences

Comparing two books

Compare/Contrast

Visualize Poetry

Vocabulary

Writing a biography

Social Studies

Comparison of French and American Revolutions

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inventions

Science

Scientific Process

Forms of energy

MIXTURES

mixtures

Math

PROBABILITY

Probability

Multiplication

Prime Factoring

Planning

Research paper

Outline projects for your class

Operation Box(do something)

DecisionBox

(alwaysan answer of

yesorno)

Start or Stop

Flow charts

Flow chartsHOW TO KNOCK ON A DOOR

Steps1. Walk to the door2. Raise hand3. Make fist4. Knock on the door three times5. Wait6. Does anyone answer?Yes - go to step 7No - go to step 47. Say “hello”

Start

1

2

3

4

Stop

6

5

7

NO GO TO STEP 4

Flow chart IdeasHow to polish a carHow to set the dining room tableHow to keep score in tennisHow to average your gradesHow to measure the distance around a circleHow to make a cakeHow to use the potter’s wheel

Analogies

www.inspiration.comconference.merlot.org/conference/ 2004/presentations/merlotInspiration.ppt A.C.T. Affective Cognitive ThinkingClassroom Instruction that Works

RESOURCES