greet classadd a thunk

do the registerstart a debate…

Do ideas come from inside or outside your head?

Tutor Time?

Would you rather live under democracy or a dictatorship led by Father Christmas?

Practice key words?

Does electricity weigh anything?

Subject specificStarter?

Which is the more important invention, the … or the …?

Make your own

What is the most important part of a …?

Is there more future than past ?

Thunks lend themselves to…• Writing an answer down on a scrap of paper • Moving students into groups to develop their arguments• Think pair share• Live voting using a spreadsheet based graph that can be

changed as arguments are made• Challenging the more able to argue against the view they

actually hold• Asking the less confident / able students to say who made

the best point

Can you stop thinking?The Little Book of ThunksIan GilbertIndependent Thinking Series£6.00 Kindle£7.00 book