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Thinking for Learning

 

 

The Northumberland Thinking for Learning website has details of courses, consultancy and resources Tibfor teaching thinking.

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Blueberry Farm

WilfBlueberry Farm is a computer program that models a simple ecosystem.

It was designed to be used as part of a sequence of science lessons aiming to help Year 7 pupils understand more about the use of chemical agents in farming and how these can affect ecosystems.

 

Blueberry Farm

 

Atlantic Challenge

Atlantic Challenge

Sir Richard Harmoat-Wilde plans to be the first to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon.

Half way across disaster strikes - the balloon punctures and begins to lose height.

Pupils working together have to find out what the airship is carrying and jettison equipment in order to make it across.




Survivor

Survivor

A thinking for learning activity to encourage group discussion and justification of decision making.

Six people are left on a life raft: for the raft to stay afloat two people must be thrown off.

Who will it be? Why? Is it fair? Who should go first? Are some lives less valuable than others?