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2. Vital Results - Reasoning and Problem Solving

Abstract and Creative Thinking

Draft July 1997

ABSTRACT AND CREATIVE THINKING 2.10 FLUENCY:

Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds)

Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds)

Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students generate several ideas using a variety of approaches. This is evident when students:

2.10 Fluency Cross Referenced to Field of Knowledge Standards:

5.1-7.9

· Participate in brainstorming activities. · Use brainstorming, webbing, concept maps, etc., to generate ideas.

· Develop more than one method to solve a problem.

· Use brainstorming, webbing, concept maps, etc., to explore and expand divergent ideas.

· Construct more than one model to represent ideas.

2.11 ELABORATION:

Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds)

Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds)

Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students represent their ideas and/or the ideas of others in detailed form. This is evident when students:

2.11 Elaboration Cross Referenced to Field of Knowledge Standards:

5.1-7.9

· Participate in discussions.

· Use questions to obtain further information.

· Represent his/her ideas through role playing.

· Represent his/her ideas through pictorial representation, projects, models, music, dance, or drama.

· Extend, add details, or add complexity to details in discussion, projects, models, pictorial representation, music, dance, or drama. · Expand presentation strategies to include technology (.e.g. Hyperstudio, Powerpoint, video, etc.) to convey details and complexity together.
2.12 FLEXIBILITY:

Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds)

Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds)

Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students modify or change their original ideas and/or the ideas of others to generate innovative solutions. This is evident when students:

2.12 Flexibility Cross Referenced to Field of Knowledge Standards:

5.1-7.9

· Demonstrate willingness to change.

· Accept ideas of others.

· Approach tasks with flexibility and inventiveness.

· Adapt their own or others’ ideas to develop new ones.

· Design, test, modify, and re-test a particular solution.

· Find more than one solution.

· Work with others to combine ideas to solve problems.

· Reflect on and evaluate their own ideas and the ideas of others.

· Use ideas to generate new learning.

· Design, test, evaluate, modify, and re-test multiple solutions.

· Collaborate with others to generate alternate solutions.

2.13 PRODUCT/SERVICE:

Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds)

Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds)

Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students design a poduct, project, or service to meet an identified need. This is evident when students:

2.13 Product/ Service Cross Referenced to Field of Knowledge Standards:

5.15,

5.22-5.37,

6.6-6.7,

6.18,

7.1-7.2,

7.10,

7.19

· Identify a need that could be met by a product, project, or service.

· Brainstorm ways to meet the identified need.

· Plan and design a product, project, or service to meet an identified need.

· Evaluate the results.

· Identify a need based on research, market study, surveys, etc.

· Brainstorm possible projects or services.

· Research relevant precedents and regulations.

· Make a plan, implement and evaluate the final results.

2.14 PLANNING/ORGANIZATION:

Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds)

Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds)

Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students plan and organize an activity. This is evident when students:

2.14 Planning/ Organization Cross Referenced to Field of Knowledge Standards:

5.15,

5.22-5.37,

6.6-6.7,

6.18,

7.1-7.2,

7.10,

7.19

· Brainstorm to plan for an activity.

· Evaluate the reasonableness of activities.

· Develop a proposal for an activity.

· Plan, organize, and evaluate all aspects of the event with adult supervision.

· Develop proposals for an activity and obtain approval for it to take place.

· Oversee all aspects of the event through to completion, with adult supervision.

· Evaluate the success of the activity.

ABSTRACT AND CREATIVE THINKING Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds) Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds) Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
2.10 FLUENCY: Students generate several ideas using a variety of approaches.

2.11 ELABORATION: Students represent their ideas and/or the ideas of others in detailed form.

2.12 FLEXIBILITY: Students modify or change their original ideas and/or the ideas of others to generate innovative solutions.

2.13 PRODUCT/SERVICE: Students design a project, or service to meet an identified need.

2.14 PLANNING/ORGANIZATION: Students plan and organize an activity.

Examples of Classroom Activities for Standard

2.10,

2.11,

2.12,

2.13,

2.14.

This will vary from team to team.

Brainstorming

Science experimentation

Art projects

Mathematical problem solving

Class discussions

Process writing

Brainstorming in all areas

Writing process

Math portfolio problem solving

Research projects

Cooperative group learning

Peer conference

Class discussions

Science experiments

Community Service projects

Field Trips

Problem solving groups

Individual/group projects

Vt. portfolios - math/writing

Peer conferences

School dance

Integrated art projects

Class discussions

Examples of Assessment Strategies for Standards

2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14

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