Cognition, Thinking & Understanding

Learning that Matters

Multiple Intelligences in the Elementary Classroom: A Teacher's Toolkit

This book will help teachers design effective curricula for their students with diverse learning abilities. The authors have created a guided process to apply MI theory to the elementary school classroom. The five pathways or approaches examined: Exploration, Bridging, Understanding, Authentic Problems, and Talent Development represent the ways in which MI can be implemented and nurtured across the elementary grades. The Pathways Model promotes and supports the development of a well-grounded understanding of MI theory to inform goal-setting and planning for using multiple intelligences theory in the classroom. Each pathway addresses a different set of goals and provides appropriate guidelines and examples. ISBN-13: 978-0807746103

Causal Patterns in Density: Lessons to Infuse into Density Units...

Causal Patterns in Density: Lessons to Infuse into Density Units to Enable Deeper Understanding Causal Patterns in Density is a curriculum module of fifteen lessons that can be used as a stand-alone unit or can be infused into a broader unit on density. The lessons are designed to address a set of persistent difficulties that students have when learning about density. These difficulties stem from how students reason about the nature of cause and effect. Each of the four module sections introduces a challenge in thinking about causality that impacts students ability to deeply understand density. The sections are sequenced to build understanding. In each lesson, a background information section describes the difficulties that students typically have in learning about density and shows how the various causal understandings, if not mastered, contribute to those difficulties. Each lesson includes subject matter goals and more general goals about the nature of causality. This module is designed for middle school but can be modified for use with older and younger students. This curriculum module was designed around best practices in science education. It was developed as part of a research project called the Understandings of Consequence Project, which is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Documentation: When does it Make Learning Visible?

Visible Thinking (Article)