1. Frames Icons

2. Over Time Means

3. Over Time Issues of importance past, present and future
Applying something historic to present knowledge
Predicting something based upon present knowledge

4. Over Time
Applying From Past to Present
Noting Change

5. Thinking Skills Describe the topic over time Judge with Criteria
Identify Relationships of a topic
Identify different time periods

6. Thinking Skills Determine relevance of knowing this topic over time
Differentiate fact from opinion

7. Key Questions How are ideas related to the past, present and future?
How are these ideas related within or during a
particular time period?

8. Key Questions How has time affected the information?
How and why do things change or remain the same?

9. Big Idea

10. Big Ideas are: Generalizations. Related to many instances
Developed from many facts

11. Big Ideas are: Overarching concepts. Related to global themes
Related to universal themes
Principles, laws and theories

12. Thinking Skills Identify / Describe the Big Idea
List the evidence needed to support
your idea.
Infer from supporting evidence
/ information

13. Key Questions Generalize What overarching statement best
describes what is being studied?

14. Key Questions Identify the main idea
What general statement includes what is being studied?

15. Thinking Skills Categorize / classify Determine relevance
Prove with evidence

17. Multiple Perspectives Are:
Different points of view.
Ways of seeing and reporting things.
Often dependent on time and place.

18. Multiple Perspectives Are:
Seen from different slants.
Affected by roles and responsibilities.
Myth & legend versus nonfiction.

19. Thinking Skills
Describe the multiple perspectives on an issue or topic.
Identify relationships among perspectives.
Identify a different point of view and explain it.

20. Thinking Skills Use a criteria to judge the various points of view.
Prioritize the most important perspectives.
Determine relevance of various points of view.

21. Key Questions What perspectives do experts have?
How does point of view affect what we learn?
When is your perspective different from others? Why?

22. Thinking Skills Methods for interpreting evidence.
What are opposing viewpoints?
How do different people see this event or situation.

23. Trends

24. Trends Are: General directions / course of action Tendencies
Current styles
Drifts
Influences / forces
Changes over time

25. Thinking Skills Describe the trend you are seeing.
Compare and Contrast.
Identify relationships among trends.
Determine Cause and effect.

26. Thinking Skills Categorize and classify trends.
Prioritize the most important.
Predict a direction.
Formulate questions

27. Thinking Skills Determine the relevance.
Judge the importance of a trend with criteria.
Prove the influence of a trend with evidence.
Formulate questions.

28. Key Questions What ongoing factors have influenced this study?
What factors have contributed to this study?
How are other patterns and details related to this?

29. Key Questions
What causes of action affected the development of ideas about this topic?
What social, political, technological, and popular ideas affected the knowledge about this topic?

31. Patterns are:
Predictive.
Able to be replicated.
Cycles.
Repetitive

32. Patterns are: Made up of details. Person made and natural designs.
Motifs and recurring elements.

33. Thinking Skills Describe the patterns. Define cause and effect
Prioritize the most important patterns
Categorize and classify patterns

34. Thinking Skills Identify relationships among patterns.
Determine the relevance.
Spot sequence of pattern parts.
Use a criteria to judge the importance of a pattern.

35. Thinking Skills Seek Patterns of types of documents.
Search for time lines.
Look for great times / great people.
Spot pattern of past / present / future.

36. Rules

37. Rules are: Standards Related to structure Authoritative directions
Conduct or procedure

38. Rules are: Statements of truth (all or most of the time) Methods
Organizational elements

39. Thinking Skills Describe the Rules.
Prioritize the most important rules
Categorize and classify Rules
Identify relationships among rules.

40. Thinking Skills Determine the relevance.
Use a criteria to judge the importance of a rule.
Identify the implicit and explicit rules
How do you evaluate rules’ efficiency and validity?

41. Key Questions How are rules related to patterns and details?
Compare structural rules to procedural rules.
Differentiate fact from opinion
Differentiate fact from fantasy and conjecture

43. Details are: Clues, facts, features Data, ideas, traits
Items, parts, particulars
Specifics, elements, factors, attributes

44. Thinking Skills Describe the detail.
Prioritize the most important details.
Note ambiguity among details
Categorize / classify details

45. Thinking Skills Identify relationships among details.
Determine relevance.
Sequence the details
Select details to determine bias or absence of bias

46. Key Questions Which details are more important than others?
What is your evidence for this?
What distinguishes this from other things?
What features characterize this?

47. Unanswered Questions

48. Unanswered Questions are:
A puzzle or conundrum
Unsolved / unknown
Something unexplained
A dilemma
Doubtful or uncertain

49. Thinking Skills Describe / state an unanswered question.
Note ambiguity
Distinguish fact from fiction
Formulate questions.

50. Thinking Skills Identify missing information Test assumptions
Prove the importance with evidence
Prove the validity with evidence

51. Thinking Skills Describe the unknown details or stimuli for the event.
Identify the origins of an unanswered question.
How do you evaluate an unanswered question’s importance?

52. Key Questions
How do you determine if, in fact, a question is unanswered?
Which areas of science or human behavior can you connect with unanswered questions?
What are the missing steps of a historical development?

53. Across Disciplines

54. Across Disciplines means:
Multidisciplinary.
Interdisciplinary
Connections among disciplines.
Touching on many subjects at once.

55. Thinking Skills Describe the topic in terms of different disciplines.
Prioritize various subject areas’ importance to the topic.
Identify relationships among information from different disciplines.

56. Thinking Skills Use a criteria to judge the various points of view.
Compare and contrast information from various disciplines.
Society as expressed in math, art and science.

57. Thinking Skills
Describe a topic’s place in more than one discipline or subject area.
Sort information you are studying into several disciplines.

58. Key Questions
How is “across disciplines” related to “multiple perspectives”?
How do experts in a discipline learn from experts in other disciplines?

59. Language of the Disciplines

60. Language of the Disciplines are:
Nomenclature and Terminology
Jargon and idiom
Figures of speech
Signs and symbols
Tools of the discipline
Combinations and patterns of terms

61. Thinking Skills Identify / list / define terms
Prioritize the most important items
Identify relationships among terms
Categorize the terms or tools

62. Thinking Skills Judge the criteria for specifying terms
Distinguish appropriateness of usage of terminology
Determine relevance

63. Key Questions What words are specific to the work of this discipline?
What tools are used by the experts in this discipline?
What are the origins of new terms in this discipline?

64. Thinking Skills Terms Terms of geography, history, science, math.
Characteristics, features, elements.
Terms, signs and symbols.
Facts, evidence, chronology
Statistical data.
Theories, laws, principles.

65. Ethics

66. Ethics are found in: Controversies / Dilemmas Biases / prejudices
Decision making
Principles of “right” behavior

67. Ethics are found in: A set of theories of moral values
Professional rules or standards
Value laden ideas
Philosophies / metaphysics (first principles)

68. Key Questions Describe the ethical issue you find
How does an ethical issue affect the information you are studying?
Why are there different ethical issues in different times and places?

69. Key Questions What are some universal ethics and values?
How do ethics get developed?
How does a culture teach or transmit its ethics?

70. Thinking Skills Determine bias / determine relevance
Identify relationships among ethical issues
Prioritize the most important ethical issues
Judge the ethical issue using a criteria
Distinguish fact from opinion
Test assumptions

71. Thinking Skills Human rights issues / conflicts Laws vs. justice
The ability to dissent
Use of propaganda