Six+Thinking+Hats

One of the thinking skills strategies that I have taught my students this year is de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.



I have a display in each of my classrooms that shows what each hat is, and questions that we should ask when we are "wearing" that hat. The lesson that I used to teach this strategy was a lesson where we used the six hats to think about Christmas (since it was right before this holiday.   After doing this lesson with my kids, we actually did come up with a solution on how we could help someone out at Christmas. My students came up with the idea to make Christmas cards for the boys in the orphanage that I was going to visit over the break. They each took the name of one of the boys in the orphanage with [|Forgotten Children Ministries] . I had shared with them about the trip and the boys down there. My students thought that since they do not have families to celebrate Christmas with, they should make them a card to cheer them up and wish them a Feliz Navidad!!  This is a picture of just a few of the cards and goodies that I took down to the boys in the orphanage from my students! A.6. Thinking Skills home