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Tools for thinking| graphic organisers| mindmapping| websites | Habits of mind

//Online Thinking Tools://
//**Intel Education**// has three **online thinking tools** that are designed to all the visualisation of thinking. The **[|Visual Ranking Tool]** allows you to order and prioritise items on a list.Students can analyze and evaluate criteria for their decisions and can visually compare their reasoning with others to promote discussion and collaboration. The Visual ranking tool was used in the [|Being Green project] that Year 8 students at Wedderburn are involved in. The **[|Seeing Reason Tool]** allows students to map cause and effect. They can examine complex relationships and collaborate and represent their thinking in a visual way. The **[|Showing Evidence Tool]** is an online space where students can construct well reasoned arguments by gathering, analysing and evaluating evidence. It includes an interactive, online workspace to help teachers and students discuss and collaborate as they evaluate claims and evidence.

VARK- Helping students to recognise what type of thinker they are might be a very useful exercise. [|VARK is an online tool] that you or your students can use to work out what type of thinker you are. The acronym VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information.

**//Graphic Organisers://**
Follow this link to find a wealth of information plus downloadable examples of **Graphic organisers** for use in the classroom. http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html [|What are Graphic Organizers ?] - [|Theory Behind Use of Graphic Organizers] - [|Benefits of Graphic Organizers] [|Guidelines for Assisting Students in the Creation of Graphic Organizers]

[|MULTIPURPOSE] ¤ [|COMPARE And CONTRAST] ¤ [|STUDY and WORK HABITS] ¤ [|RESEARCH] [|SEQUENCING] ¤ [|HIERARCHIES] ¤ [|CAUSE and EFFECT] ¤ [|CONCEPT]
 * Printable Graphic Organizers:**

//**Online MindMapping tools**//
A [|short video that shows Tony Buzan] speaking about mindmapping.

The Thinking Curriculum site is an incredibly useful site created by **Rob Costello,** a teacher in North West Victoria. Of special interest to Victorian teachers are the Vels Audit tools. Rob has created an [|online thinking tool] and a very useful pages of [|thinking tools and strategies.]

is a simple [|online mapping tool] It allows you to Share and work with friends, Embed your mind map in your blog or website, Email and print your mind map and Save your mind map as an image

**[| Mindomo]** is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.

[|FreeMind is a mapping tool] that allows for creating diagrams that link words and ideas to a central idea or word. Mind maps can be used to visualize, classify, structure, and generate ideas. Freemind is a free download that you can use as a teacher when planning and creating courses of study or with students to help them visualise, classify, structure or generate ideas. The website is in the form of a wiki and gives you all the information you will need to download and understand the mindmap plus support pages. Higher Order Thinking Skills Question Templates http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Standards/Programs_of_Study/Higher_Order_Thinking_Skills_Question_Templates.pdf Extending Children’s Special Abilities – Strategies for Primary Classrooms http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/bloomrev/index.htm Quellmalz Framework of Thinking Skills [|http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Standards/Programs_of_Study/ Quellmalz_Framework_of_Thinking_Skills.pdf] Accelerated Learning Network http://www.accelerated-learning.net/multiple.htm Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills [|http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/critical.htm] Learning Domains or Bloom’s Taxonomy [|http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html]
 * Higher Order Thinking Skills Resources** - this list is borrowed from the Intel Teach Essentials course.

Habits of Mind Resources
The Official Habits of Mind Site http://www.habitsofmind.org A Thinking Pedagogy: Habits of Mind http://www.i-learnt.com/Thinking_Habits_Mind.html Project Evaluation for 11 of the 16 Habits of Mind http://sd71.bc.ca/sd71/school/courtmid/habits/project_habits_evaluation.htm