Minds on Science Gazette

Volume 8

Think Pieces

Strategies Fostering Thinking

 

• Make a list of strategies you think will enhance critical thinking in science classrooms. Then make a separate list of strategies you think will enhance creative thinking. What criteria did you use to generate each list? How do the criteria compare?

• Construct an essay (no more than two pages) on the efficacy of using structured controversies in the science classroom to enhance critical and creative thinking.

• Find an article in the literature on the K-L-M reading strategy and write a brief report