Brainstorming!
Deductive analysis!
Criterion-based choices! Visual
logic!
Spark higher level critical and creative thinking
in your primary classroom!
Introduce all your students to problem-solving
strategies while providing differentiated, challenging activities for talented
learners!
P.E.T.S.™
…
- is a systematized enrichment and diagnostic
thinking skills program suitable for kindergarten through the primary
grades.
- aligns to the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- presents lessons in convergent analysis, divergent
synthesis, evaluation, and visual/spatial thinking.
- provides diagnostic checklists for each type of
thinking.
- helps build behavioral portfolios on talented
learners that support a differentiated approach to their education.
- integrates flexibly into any existing primary
curriculum.
- includes detailed lesson plans, instructional stories,
and student materials.
- offers opportunities for learners with different
strengths to shine!
- is engaging and fun!
KINDERGARTEN P.E.T.S.™ …
- stimulates early learners with challenging activities in
convergent, divergent, evaluative, and visual thinking.
- provides higher-level thinking question cubes that can
be used with any of the popular trade books.
- leads into the primary PETS™ program.
P.E.T.S.™
1 …
- introduces the six thinking specialists of Crystal Pond
Woods – Dudley the Detective, Isabel the Inventor, Jordan the Judge, Sybil
the Scientist, Yolanda the Yarnspinner, and Max the Magician!
- has four lessons aligned to the problem-solving
strategies of each thinker.
- includes creative brainstorming, critical analysis,
and evaluative decision-making activities.
P.E.T.S.™
2 …
- follows the continuing metacognitive
antics of the six thinking specialists.
- has 24 more lessons that develop higher-level
problem-solving strategies
- includes logic elimination puzzles, visual
synthesis creations, SCAMPERations, tangrams, and problem-solving matrices
P.E.T.S.™
3 …
- has another 24 fun and challenging ready-to-use
lessons with the six thinking specialists.
- includes more complex deductive logic challengers,
unique Skedoodles, visual pentominoes,
and problem-solving matrices.
Check out our free P.E.T.S.™ newsletter online at Pieces of Learning’s home page.
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Find questions, answers, additional activities, and
spin-offs
for
teachers using the P.E.T.S.™ program!
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