After Roy Leighton's excellent training in November on Outstanding Learning and how we can bring learning to life in our classrooms- I came across this idea of 'Thunks' whilst browsing through his organistaion's website (see link below).
Thunks are drawn from Independent Thinking’s work in Philosophy for Children and have been used with thousands of young people to get them thinking deeply and critically. Questions where there are no rights or wrongs are hugely liberating for young people and generate levels of thinking that you often don’t achieve with traditional ’guess what’s in the teacher’s head’ type question and answering where there are right or wrong answers." Learning Bug
Here's a few to get you started. These are super for starter activities; tutor time and the pupils could even make their own THUNKS. Please share any with colleagues here. Your contributions are always valued and appreciated.
Is black a colour?
Can you touch the wind?
If I swapped brains with you would you still be you and me still me?
Is a millionaire who is marooned on a desert island still a millionaire?
Is plastic (which comes from oil, which comes from trees) man-made or natural?
Some more Thunks can be found at:
Independent thinking
