Poverty 2 Prosperity - Challenge Pack

Thinking Skills CREATIVE THINKING • Locate, collect, sort, classify and sequence information • Compare, contrast and analyse information • Search a variety of sources and be selective • Collate appropriately • Check reliability • Evaluate information alongside other sources • Judge the value of information • Develop criteria for making judgments • Have confidence in their own ability to draw their own conclusions • Test the validity of a view • Evaluate information • Be aware that people interpret things differently • Generate and extend ideas • Make predictions based on knowledge and research • Create hypotheses that can be tested • Use imagination • Look for innovative outcomes • Show empathy for others • Ask relevant questions • Pose and define problems • Plan what to do • Predict outcomes • Test and improve ideas • Anticipate consequences • Reason for opinion and action • Draw inference and make deduction • Explain thoughts and justify opinions • Make judgments on reason and evidence • Read between the lines • Appreciation of a variety of outcomes The Challenge Packs focus on five core thinking skills Information Processing , Reasoning, Enquiry, Creative Thinking, Evaluation utilising skills that are taught and used across the whole curriculum but are vital when developing a pupil’s ability to transfer learning from subject to subject, and then subject to real life. This resource uses a different thinking skill in each lesson, therefore encouraging independent learners in the context of complex issues that require critical thinking. Pupils can claim ownership of their own judgement and values towards the development issues presented to them, rather than allowing a single or biased viewpoint to influence their opinions. I N F O R M A T I O N P R O C E S S I N G C h a l l e n g e P a c k 1 - I t W a s n ’ t M e C h a l l e n g e P a c k 2 - T h e C l i m a t e & M e R E A S O N I N G C h a l l e n g e P a c k 1 - I f O n l y I ’ d K n o w n I t W a s Y o u C h a l l e n g e P a c k 2 - M o v i n g F o r w a r d C R E A T I V E T H I N K I N G C h a l l e n g e P a c k 1 - M a k i n g D r e a m s C o m e T r u e C h a l l e n g e P a c k 2 - I m a g i n i n g C h a n g e E N Q U I R Y C h a l l e n g e P a c k 1 - D e g r e e s O f T r u t h C h a l l e n g e P a c k 2 - C h a n g i n g W o r l d s E V A L U A T I O N C h a l l e n g e P a c k 1 - T h a n k Y o u F o r T h e M e m o r i e s C h a l l e n g e P a c k 2 - I g n o r a n c e I s B l i s s 11