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Activities included if you wanted to replicate these with your students/kids!

Be sure to check out the Educator's tab at the top to find many great resources!

This amazing toolbox organizes Thinking Routines into categories.

When you open a routine, go to the section for Resource Links to access an explanation/lesson on how to use this tool.

Tools or strategies are divided into these categories (a few examples are listed but there are many more):
*Core thinking routines (E.g., See, think, wonder, What makes you say that?)
*Digging Deeper Into Ideas (E.g., Outside in, Layers, Fact or fiction?)
*Introducing and exploring ideas (Lenses, Step in - step out - step back)
*Objects and systems (Creative hunt, Parts-people-interactions)
*Perspective taking (Options explosion, True for who?)
*Perspectives, controversies and Dilemmas (Tug for truth, Sticking points, 4Cs)
*Possibilities and analogies (3-2-1 bridge, Creative quesitons)
*Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas (+1 Routine, Take note, Headlines)
*With Art or Objects (Creative comparisons, Looking: 10x2, Thinking with images)

"Use AI to create a matching image. Your goal is to match the image below as closely as possible. The closer you get, the higher your score."

This is a great way to teach students to be concise in their writing, how to use description as well as to learn how to write good AI prompts (not to mention it's really fun!).

This article looks at a short and sweet way to try PBL/Inquiry/Passion Projects/Genius hour,

You can do this for a day or a week.

A quick introduction to the metacognition cycle and how it wraps around the learning our students do. (At Sun West - for more information on metacognition reach out to your PeBL Mentor or a Learning Consultant.)

This site houses a collection of ready to go resources including:

*tools
*templates
*visual
*recall
*no technology

Find slides at ditch.link/cabinetlinks