1st Edition
Challenging Minds Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities
Introduction, Classroom Applications of the Challenges, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Thinking about Thinking (Metacognosis) Challenges: 1. Get the Answers 2. Debates, Arguments and All-out Brawls 3. Show Me You (and the universe and an atom) 4. Blinding Blurb 5. Nourish and Flourish 6. Hero Worship (or: Elvis Presley is better than Albert Einstein) 7. Laughable Logic 8. A. A. Milne—Poet or Psychic? 9. Photocopying Mirrors 10.Dare to be Different: A Hypothesis 11.Problematic Probing 12.The Future is Cool (for Kold Korp.) Single-task Thinking:13.If Fred’s Hat is Purple, What’s the Name of Mary’s Dog? 14.Please Ignore This Heading
Biography
With a background in teaching, Lynne Kelly started her writing career with educational books—10 of them—including Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities.
Susan Stonequist works at Sunset Ridge District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. She currently teaches seventh- and eighth-grade math courses and math enrichment activities for grades 6-8. She also taught mathematics and science in Avoca School District 37 in Illinois. In 1997, Susan earned her Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Susan presented at the 2010 National Association for Gifted Children conference. She has a supportive husband, Mike, and three wonderful children, Brendan, Connor, and Abby. She can be reached at [email protected].
