Boards+and+Blooms







**// "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" //** (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Interactive whiteboards: many classrooms have them, but what are they used for? Are they used for writing class notes, watching educational videos, completing digital worksheets, practicing math facts and working on spelling words? That’s good! Or are these very expensive classroom tools used to create, evaluate, analyze and apply with classroom content? That’s even better! Participants in the Boards and Blooms workshop will spend the day taking curriculum standards, interactive whiteboard software and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and designing student centered learning activities that increase student use of higher order thinking skills.

How can I best design instruction that promotes thinking? How can standards based interactive whiteboard lessons provide opportunities for deeper thinking? How can interactive whiteboard lessons become more student centered?
 * Essential Question **
 * Unit Questions **


 * Standards and Objectives
 * Curriculum Framing Questions
 * Cool Tools
 * Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate

** So how do we create exemplary interactive whiteboard lessons that promote higher order thinking skills? **
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