You may start with this cute PowerPoint presentation: http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Intro/littliespres.ppt#1 If you are teaching geography or anatomy (or both :-} you may use "my" anthropomorphic maps at http://armedforcesjournal.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38380742 If you are teaching math, there are a lot of word-problems by Isaac Asimov that encourage thinking "outside the box". Izzy On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager < ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > etni Digest Wed, 02 Nov 2011 Volume: 09 Issue: 293 > > In This Issue: > [etni] Introducing HOTS problem solving? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:33:01 +0200 > From: Danny and Esther Behar and Family <behar123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [etni] Introducing HOTS problem solving? > > My creativity is gone. Does anyone have an idea for how to introduce > the Higher Order Thinking Skill of problem solving? > > I'm a Native Speaker English teacher and so we are making this up as we > go along, no textbook > > Thanks, > Esther Behar >