Cognitive Toolboxes

The Cognitive Toolbox is a collection of thinking tools that help students understand and remember concepts and ideas. As students utilize these tools within the Cognitive Toolbox, their familiarity and ease of use with each tool increases. As a result, the Cognitive Toolbox becomes a valuable resource that students can draw on as they approach, investigate, or reflect on a problem or new science concept. Toolboxes often contain tools that make a job easier to do and better when it is done.

Inside the Cognitive Toolbox, or Thinking Toolbox, students will find thinking tools to make their thinking and learning easier and improved. Students will find some tools useful in some situations and other tools useful in other situations. As students gain familiarity with the thinking tools in the Toolbox, they will become more confident and at ease with using them.

Select the Primary or Intermediate Elementary Cognitive Toolbox to the left and right above, or the Middle School Cognitive Toolbox below.