thought and thinking

Presents a rationale for using the arts to teach social studies, describes lessons based on the theater, drawing and cartooning, commercials, media, writing and literature, music, and hands-on projects, and includes three lessons designed to encourage students to think about the nature of history.

Discusses such topics as gases, energy, atoms, intelligence and dreams and other things which cannot be seen.

Contains experiments that demonstrate the human brain's response to various visual tricks, and explains why the brain reacts the way it does to various sights, sounds, and memories.

Hal Urban offers simple and immediate ways for using language to change our lives and those of others.

A series of stories and scientific findings to explore why the mind does not function the way people perceive, revealing how our intuitions often get us into trouble.

Presents strategies and rubrics for assessing several "habits of mind" in students--such as persisting, managing impulsivity, and thinking flexibly--and explains how to teach parents and peer groups to use assessment tools as well as teach students to self-assess.

The fourth in a series of books about sixteen types of intelligent behavior known as habits of mind, describing strategies for integrating habits of mind into the culture and daily life of the school.

Presents practical advice for using the "habits of mind"--sixteen types of intelligent behavior--in the classroom, including discussion of their application to mathematics, art, foreign language, reading comprehension, and character instruction.

An exploration of how the human mind came into existence, posing questions about the mental processes that distinguish humans from animals, and discussing the power and significance of language.