work book to connect literature with math and science.

Templates

What are the essential questions relating to this topic? How does that relate to goals and measurements?
How can we teach this creatively?

Advice: As this program is to get you and your students more engaged in using engineering and thinking skills in an interdisciplinary learning environment, we want to be careful about providing scripted templates for doing things. The excitement we hope to create in your students is based on a creative learning environment where things can happen differently for the same story.

please use the templates and examples as just a memory jogger that allows you to engage and excite your students. We are modeling tools for you, but you have to add the special sauce.

Design Process:

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Rules of Brainstorming (doc)
design process, teacher comment and questions (pdf)	Simplified design process and questions for teachers use; created with Newton PS

Finding Design Challenges

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Mindmap a story
Using Bloom Taxonomy	Using questions from the higher order thinking skills of Bloom in Goldilocks

Thinking Skills

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Thinking skills overview ( pdf)
Thinking skills mindmap
Article by Bridgett Perry Galvin (pdf)	The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to provide information on the learning process and skillful thinking and, second, to provide educators with tangible suggestions on how to change the learning environment to enhance skillful thinking.
BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY (doc)	Using the updated Bloom Taxonomy, we can create questions around the 6 levels, starting from the lowest level to the higher order thinking skill:, includes action verbs.
PDF document	DESCRIBING 16 HABITS OF MIND By Arthur L. Costa, Ed. D. and Bena Kallick, Ph.D.

Assessment

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project based learning

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