Thinking+Tools

=Classroom Resources= Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links.
 * [|Clock]
 * [|Cluster/Word Web 1]
 * [|Cluster/Word Web 2]
 * [|Cluster/Word Web 3]
 * [|Describing Wheel]
 * [|E-Chart]
 * [|Fact and Opinion]
 * [|Five W's Chart]
 * [|Flow Chart]
 * [|Four-Column Chart]
 * [|Garden Gate]
 * [|Goal-Reasons Web]
 * [|Ice-Cream Cone]
 * [|Idea Rake]
 * [|Idea Wheel]
 * [|Inverted Triangle]
 * [|ISP Chart> (Information, Sources, Page)]
 * [|KWL Chart]
 * [|KWS Chart]
 * [|Ladder]
 * [|Observation Chart]
 * [|Persuasion Map]
 * [|Planning Chart]
 * [|Problem-Solution Chart]
 * [|Sandwich]
 * [|Sense Chart]
 * [|Sequence Chart]
 * [|Spider Map]
 * [|Step-by-Step Chart]
 * [|Story Map 1]
 * [|Story Map 2]
 * [|Story Map 3]
 * [|T-Chart]
 * [|Ticktacktoe]
 * [|Time Line]
 * [|Time-Order Chart]
 * [|Tree Chart]
 * [|Venn Diagram]

====Some GREAT graphic organisers can be found at the [|Teachers Page of Time for Kids]====

[] More graphic organisers

 * ====[|Thinkport]==== || ==== [[image:rellco:THINKPORT.JPG caption="THINKPORT.JPG"]] ==== ||
 * ====[|Education Oasis]==== || ====[[image:rellco:Ed_Oasis.JPG caption="Ed_Oasis.JPG"]]==== ||
 * < ====[|Busy Teachers Cafe:]==== || ====[[image:rellco:Busy_Teacher_cafe caption="Busy_Teacher_cafe"]]==== ||
 * < ====[|Education Place]==== || ====[[image:rellco:Ed_Place caption="Ed_Place"]]==== ||
 * < ====[|Freeology]==== || ====[[image:rellco:feeology caption="feeology"]]==== ||
 * < ====[|8 Thinking Maps]==== || ====E.g. Define Map / Bridge Map====

8 in total
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[|Another site full of graphic organizers]


 * Graphic Organizers ||
 * Here you will find **58** graphic organizers. They are PDFs. You will need an Adobe Reader to view and print them. If you do not have a Reader, you may download one here for free. Note: Some of the graphic organizers may be **filled out** (and then printed). ||
 * Categories of Organizers ||
 * [|Cause and Effect Organizers (11 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Character and Story Organizers (17 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Compare and Contrast Organizers (6 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Sequence, Cycle, Timeline, and Chain of Events Organizers (7 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Vocabulary Development and Concept Organizers (5 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Cause and Effect Organizers (11 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Character and Story Organizers (17 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Compare and Contrast Organizers (6 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Sequence, Cycle, Timeline, and Chain of Events Organizers (7 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Vocabulary Development and Concept Organizers (5 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Compare and Contrast Organizers (6 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Sequence, Cycle, Timeline, and Chain of Events Organizers (7 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Vocabulary Development and Concept Organizers (5 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Vocabulary Development and Concept Organizers (5 organizers) Go»] ||
 * [|Vocabulary Development and Concept Organizers (5 organizers) Go»] ||

**CI** r e s o u r c e I N Q U I R Y G R A P H I C O R G A N I S E R TK Curriculum Integration often involves students in undertaking an inquiry into some topic or issue. The following graphic organisers are designed to assist students to use the inquiry process in the context of their learning. Teachers can follow the link to the resource then print off a copy of the graphic organiser and photocopy it for all the students in their classroom.

[|**The facts about …**] This graphic organiser can be used by students to record the facts they have gathered about a topic and then to summarise those facts in their own words.

[|**My keywords**] This graphic organiser can be used for students to record all the keywords that can think of relating to a particular topic.

[|**Know, want to know, learnt**] This graphic organiser can be used by students to record what they know about a topic, what they want to know about the topic, and what they have learnt once they have completed inquiring into the topic.

[|**Reframing questions**] This graphic organiser asks students to develop a question then rewrite their question in a different way.

[|**Inquiry self evaluation**] This graphic organiser can be used by students to record how they felt they went with their inquiry. It includes ratings for aspects of the inquiry from their focus questions through to their presentation of findings.

[|**Time management plan**] This graphic organiser can be used by students to plan out the tasks they need to complete in their inquiry.