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Core Thinking Routines
Introducing & Exploring Ideas
Digging Deeper into Ideas
Synthesizing & Exploring Ideas
Investigating Objects and Systems
Perspective-taking
Considering Controversies, Dilemmas, and Perspectives
Generating Possibilities and Analogies
Exploring Art, Images, and Objects
Global Thinking
LLAVE
Core
Posibilidades y analogías
Perspectivas, controversias y dilemas
Objetos y sistemas
Tomando perspectiva
Con arte u objetos
Profundizando en las ideas
Sintetizar y explorar ideas
Introducción y exploración de ideas
Pensamiento global
+1 Routine
3-2-1 Bridge
Beauty and Truth
Beginning, Middle, End
Chalk Talk
Circle of Viewpoints
Circles of Action
Claim, Support, Question
Color, Symbol, Image
Colors, Shapes, Lines
Compass Points
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Creating Space for Learning
Creative Comparisons
Creative Hunt
Creative Question Starts
Creative Questions
Digital Habits Checkup
Does It Fit?
Elaboration Game
Facts or Fiction
Feelings and Options
Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate
Headlines
Here Now / There Then
Hotspots
How Else and Why?
I Used to Think... Now I Think...
Imagine If...
Imagine If... (For Younger Children)
Layers
Lenses
Listening: Ten Times Two
Looking: Ten Times Two
Name, Describe, Act
Options Diamond
Options Explosion
Outside In
Parts, People, Interactions
Parts, People, Interactions (For Exploring Complexity)
Parts, People, Interactions (For Younger Children)
Parts, Perspectives, Me
Parts, Perspectives, Me (For Exploring Complexity)
Parts, Purposes, Complexities
Parts, Purposes, Complexities (For Exploring Complexity)
Parts, Purposes, Complexities (For Younger Children)
Pass the Parcel
Peel the Fruit
Portable Surprise
Projecting Across Distance
Projecting Across Time
Red Light, Yellow Light
Reflect, Connect, Project
Reporter’s Notebook
Same and Different
Same, Different, Connect, Engage
See Wonder Connect x2
See, Feel, Think, Wonder
See, Think, Make, Discuss
See, Think, Me, We
See, Think, Wonder
Seek to See
Slow Complexity Capture
Step In, Step Out, Step Back
Step Inside
Sticking Points
Stop, Look, Listen
Stories
Take a Stand
Take Note
The 3 Whys
The 4 Cs
The Complexity Scale
The Explanation Game
Think, Feel, Care
Think, Feel, Care (For Younger Children)
Think, Pair, Share
Think, Puzzle, Explore
Thinking with Images
True for Who?
Tug for Truth
Tug of War
Unveiling Stories
Values, Identities, Actions
Walk the Week
Ways Things Can Be Complex
What Can Be
What Makes You Say That?
Who Am I?
Word-Phrase-Sentence
+1 Routine
3-2-1 Bridge
Beginning, Middle, End
Chalk Talk
Circle of Viewpoints
Circles of Action
Claim, Support, Question
Color, Symbol, Image
Colors, Shapes, Lines
Compass Points
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Creative Comparisons
Creative Hunt
Creative Question Starts
Creative Questions
Does It Fit?
Elaboration Game
Facts or Fiction
Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate
Headlines
Here Now / There Then
How Else and Why?
I Used to Think... Now I Think...
Imagine If...
Imagine If... (For Younger Children)
Layers
Listening: Ten Times Two
Looking: Ten Times Two
Name, Describe, Act
Options Diamond
Options Explosion
Outside In
Parts, People, Interactions
Parts, Purposes, Complexities
Peel the Fruit
Portable Surprise
Projecting Across Distance
Projecting Across Time
Reporter’s Notebook
Same and Different
See Wonder Connect x2
See, Think, Wonder
Slow Complexity Capture
Step In, Step Out, Step Back
Sticking Points
Stop, Look, Listen
Stories
Take Note
The 3 Whys
The Complexity Scale
The Explanation Game
Think, Feel, Care
Think, Pair, Share
Thinking with Images
True for Who?
Tug for Truth
Tug of War
Walk the Week
Ways Things Can Be Complex
What Can Be
What Makes You Say That?
Who Am I?
Word-Phrase-Sentence
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