Higher-Order Thinking Playground: Engage in Critical Creative Thinking Integrations and Resources!

Objectives Provide hands-on opportunities to explore a variety of higher order thinking activities that cover numerous curricular areas will be found throughout the playground. Playground resources will include links to free resources so participants can easily integrate activities into their classroom. Interactive Tables will host the same integration activity the duration of the playground giving attendees time and opportunity to interact with presenters and the activities, strategies, resources they share. Presenters will guide educators through a variety of higher order thinking activities. Each table will have mini hands-on activities for participants to work through and resources that allow participants to easily integrate activities into their content. These interactive tables allow participants to dig in and “Think” just as their students would do. Presenters will provide resources for these quick and easy thinking integration through the combined resource doc provided in the digital tote. Table Integrations which may be included are: PBL Creative Design STEAM AR/VR integrations Questioning Strategies Robotics Computer Science Problem Solving and Design AI Integrations Creative Communication Higher Order Thinking Games both online and hands on Presentation Stage areas will be used to showcase the "how to", the questioning strategies, and more in depth activities to demonstrate the importance and impact of infusing higher order thinking strategies and activities. These mini presentations will include a variety of convergent and divergent thinking, questioning strategies, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Computational Thinking pillars, engineering concepts, etc. Each presentation will provide guidance and resources for their topic as they demonstrate a variety of questioning strategies to inspire thinking and move students beyond finding a right answer. Presentation Stage areas 1 and 2 will have 3-4 presentations around a Variety of Higher Order Thinking Integrations and Resources. Topics areas which may be included Curricular areas like ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies Computational Thinking PBL Building Breakouts and Escape Activities STEM and Engineering Design Virtual and Augmented Reality Creative Design AI Integrations

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