HOTS for Teachers: 25 Top Resources For Higher Order Thinking Skills

 5 Rules of Thumb for Designing HOTS Classroom Activities
http://www.slideshare.net/dkuropatwa/5-rules-of-thumb-designing-classroom-activities
A SlideShare show from Darren Kuropatwa
5 Tech Friendly Lessons to Encourage Higher Order Thinking http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/09/24/5-mediarich-lesson-ideas-to-encourage-higherorder-thinking.aspx
An article from The Journal
Apps to Support Revised Blooms Taxonomy
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=713727
An interactive resource site from Livebinders and Ginger Lewman
Children’s Complex Learning Skills Begin Forming Before They go to School http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/01/23/children-s-complex-thinking-skills-begin-forming-they-go-school
An article from the University of Chicago
Children Thinking Skills Blog
http://childrenthinkingskills.blogspot.com/p/high-order-of-thinking-skills.html
An article from Children’s Thinking Skills
Critical and Creative Thinking from Blooms Taxonomy
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm
An article from Teacher Tap
Examples that Promote Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://teaching.uncc.edu/articles-books/best-practice-articles/instructional-methods/promoting-higher-thinking
An article from The Center for Teaching and Learning at UNC C
A Guide to Using Free Apps to Support Higher Order Thinking http://learninginhand.com/blog/guide-to-using-free-apps-to-support-higher-order-thinking-sk.html
A resource site from Learning in Hand
Higher Order Thinking
http://www.pinterest.com/gladridge/higher-order-thinking
A resource site from Pinterest
Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/hots1.htm
A HOTS Resource site
Higher Order Thinking Skill Activities
http://engagingstudents.blackgold.ca/index.php/division-iv/hotsd4/hotsd3s
A resource site from Black Gold Regional Schools
Higher Order Thinking Skills Daily Practice Activities http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4945356-higher-order-thinking-skills-hots-daily-practice-activities
An article from GoodReads and Debra Collett
Higher Order Thinking Questions
An article from Edutopia
How to Choose Mobile Apps for Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://blog.iste.org/choose-mobile-apps-developing-higher-order-thinking-skills/
An article from ISTE
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/tips-howtos/encourage-higher-order-thinking-30624.html
An article from ReadWriteThink
How To Increase Higher Order Thinking
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/34655
An article from Reading Rockets
How to Increase Higher Order Thinking
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/34655
An article from Reading Rockets
A Model for the National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-model-for-the-national-assessment-of-higher-order-thinking/591
An article from the Critical Thinking Community
The New Blooms Taxonomy – Develop Higher Order Thinking Skills with Creativity Tools http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/v02/articles/The_New_Blooms
An article from Tech4Learning
Questioning to Promote Higher Order Thinking
http://www.pgcps.org/~elc/isquestiontopromote.html
A resource site from Prince George’s County Public School
Reading Comprehension and Higher Order Thinking
http://www.k12reader.com/reading-comprehension-and-higher-order-thinking-skills/
An article from k12reader
Teaching Kids to Use Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYgVTwON5Rg
A video from Youtube
Thinking Skills
http://www.thinkingclassroom.co.uk/ThinkingClassroom/ThinkingSkills.aspx
A resource site from Mike Fleetham’s Thinking Classroom
Thinking Skills Resources
A resource site from Lessonplanet
Using Technology to Promote Higher Order Thinking http://leroycsd.org/HighSchool/HSLinksPages/ProblemSolving.htm
A resource site from LeRoy Central School District in NY
 

Laura Turner teaches Computer Technology in the College of Education at Black Hills State University, South Dakota.