1. The Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool (CCDT)

The CCDT is an online tool that you can use to plan your curriculum using the any of the teaching frameworks described in the ALPS site. You can create unit designs by yourself or by using the build in features of collaboration you can design with a colleague or team of colleagues in your school, school district, or around the state, country, or world. *NEW* Design Your Curriculum Unit - Online! The new version of the Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool is now available! Take your curriculum unit to the next level with new features that help you to organize your work, interact with your design team, and share your final draft with others. Click here to open the new CCDT! Start a new unit design. View your published or "in process" designs. View the collections of units that members have posted for sharing

2. The Starting Block Activity

Getting ready to learn is powerful critical thinking move to make when learning about a new topic. People rarely come to a learning situation, like learning about teaching thinking for example, without any prior thoughts or questions. The Starting Block, which is part of the Thinking Classroom region, helps you shape your questions and preliminary ideas into an active readiness to learn about the teaching of thinking. Play the Starting Block

3. The Connection Cube

Arguably, the most important job of education is to provide students with knowledge that they can transfer in meaningful ways to other aspects of their present or future lives Play the Connection Cube

4. The ALPS Kick-Off Activity

The ALPS site is as expansive in scope as it is deep with content. If you are new to ALPS, you may want to do the Kick-Off Activity to get a sense of the rich pedagogical terrain covered in ALPS, as well as give us a sense how well we presented and guided you through it. The activity also gives you a chance to actively engage some of the ideas introduced in ALPS site right away. It also help focus your visit to the ALPS site by allowing you to identify areas of interest and burning questions for your exploration. Do the ALPS Kick-Off Activity

5. Reflection Spaces

W e draw conclusions everyday from our experiences. Are our conclusions reasonable and helpful to us as we plan future experiences? One way to find out is to reflect on our conclusions, on our actions and on our thoughts in order to assess our own growth and development Take time out to reflect.

6. An Interactive Look at Understanding

Explore understanding from an interactive perspective-one that asks you to reflect on, and share your own personal experiences. This is a set of questions about understanding that we have asked people all over the world. As you read through them, we hope you'll take the time to answer the questions for yourself before comparing what you came up with to what others have shared during workshops.. Interact with Understanding ...