The sites listed below were "harvested" from the World Wide Web as part of the course activities for Learning & Assessment during the Spring 2001 semester. They can be used as a resource to help learn  more about higher order thinking skills (HOTS), how to help use then in your classroom  and how to help your students develop these important skills.

• Articles

• General

• Lessons

    Articles

• Applying Learning to Life

• The Big Six

• Critical Thinking in an Online World

• Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills and Multiple Intelligences

• Encouraging Thinking in High School and Middle School

• Higher Order Thinking Skills

• Higher Order Thinking Strategies For the Classroom

• How Can We Teach Critical Thinking?

• Introduction to Problem Solving

• Learning From Experience

• Problem Solving in Early Childhood Classrooms

• Reading Beyond the Line

• Testing Higher-Level Thinking Skills

• Thinking Outloud

• What is Problem-Based Learning

• What's Wrong With Higher Order Thinking Skills?

   General Ideas

• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills

• Science Standards of Learning

• SureMath

   Lessons & Activities

• Basketball Playbook

• Blooming Up: Teaching the Art of Questioning

• Creative Problem Solving Activity

• EPA: Classroom Activities

• HAZ-ED Classroom Activities for Understanding Hazardous Waste

• Math for Kids: A Medieval Adventure in Problem-Solving

• Multiple Intelligence Lesson Plans

• Pick A Card

• Problem Solving Activities

• Rube Goldberg's Homepage

• Rube Goldberg's Machine Contest

• Seed Germination

• Simulations and Higher Order Thinking Skills

• Sorting through Spiders

• Various Levels of Learning

Compiled by: EDUC 6023 Learning & Assessment Midwestern Sate University Spring 2001 Updated: December 2001