At the start of each lesson I place a thinking task on the board for my students to answer. This starts the lesson off with a challenging but fun task and gets them in the correct frame of mind for learning. The tasks vary from lateral thinking, memory, mathematical and literacy questions. The website skoolio.co.uk contains hundreds of Brainteasers of varying difficulties and are also good to get any lesson off to a positive start where students have to apply System 2 thinking as described by the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow. System 1 thinking is quick and automatic and requires little or no effort, while System 2 thinking is required to solve complex problems of mental tasks.
I've produced several PowerPoint presentations over the years with questions to challenge students thinking which are available from my GoogleDrive. Other activities such as Thunks are also good at getting students in the deep thinking zone!
I've produced several PowerPoint presentations over the years with questions to challenge students thinking which are available from my GoogleDrive. Other activities such as Thunks are also good at getting students in the deep thinking zone!
| Lateral Thinking Questions.ppt |
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