NEW Covid-19 Plan: Students, please read the class blog (look at the top of the page for the tab "Class Blog") for your assignment, a weekly "Thinkersize" puzzle. Love, Mrs. Chamberlain Lessons for February 1.Creating Criteria “What shall we do in class today”& “Choose your chip”- gather facts, forecast problems, brainstorm solutions and create scoring criteria. 2.Jacob’s Ladder A- The Blue Heron 3.(cause/effect& consequences/implications) 4.Jacob’s Ladder D- Mary Poppins’s Secret (Creative Synthesis) 5.Jacob’s Ladder B- Bedtime Story (Details/Classify/& Generalizations) Lessons for January 1.Introduce “Max the Magician Hat”- how to find the one solution that works. 2.Cacophony of Colors- solving visual problems while attempting to color maps using only 4 different colors.Finding the pattern. 3.Max’s tantalizing Twelve- visual thinking through manipulation of pentomino shapes to solve a variety of puzzles. 4.Analogy Adventures- Analyze visual analogies. 5.Web Walkers- Using visual and convergent thinking to develop effective strategies for problem solving complex problems. 6.Max’s Fanciful Phrases- Looking for visual clues from various perspectives and to look for the interrelationship of visual clues. 7.Quadrominoes- visual and convergent thinking in complex number patterns. Lessons for December: 1. Thinking Skills, SCAMPER with Isabel 2. "Brainstorm Blowout" 3. "Oodles of Skedoodles"- Divergent 4. Chain Reaction- Divergent thinking 5. Paper Tower Contest 6. The Snowflake Sisters- Productive thinking, forecasting, and planning Lessons for November: #1- What is SCAMPER? #2- SCAMPER (Book 2)- Inventive Thinking #3- SCAMPER (Book 3) #4- Oodles of Skedoodles- Divergent Thinking #5- Chain Reaction- Divergent and Inventive Thinking #6- Questions and Paper Tower Building Lessons for October: *Chocolate Party and reading of epilogues #4-Fingerprint Analysis #5- Dangerous Generalizations #6- Alibis #7-Puzzles for Deductive Reasoning #8-Puzzles for Deductive Reasoning #9- Solve it! Mystery Celebration- Students will read their epilogue to the class. Lessons for September: Critical thinking in patterns Generalizations (J.L.) #1-Create chocolate/recipe/design (G.C A World of Resources (J.L.) Ladder B #2-Assumptions and Facts (G.C.C.) #3-Suspects (G.C.C.)