Think It! Contract Activities

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Think It! Contract Activities for you to print and use:

	Antarctica Thinking Contract (Word, 213 KB) (developed by Kylie Waltisbuhl and Sue Franks)
	Rock On! Thinking Skills Contract (Word, 46 KB) (developed by Mary-Anne Aland and Sharon Brown)
	Aquatics Contract (Microsoft Publisher, 79KB) (developed by Maria Colarusso)
	"Saving the World" Thinkers Keys (Word, 39KB) (created by Mary-Anne Aland and Sharon Brown)
	Ekka Thinker's Keys Activities (471 KB) (created by Geanine Richardson)
	It's Showtime! (Word, 377 KB) (created by Alisa Altmann)
	Roller Coaster Thinking Skills Contract (Word, 44 KB) (created by Mary-Anne Aland and Sharon Brown)
	United by the Moment (Word, 39 KB) (created by Mary-Anne Aland and Sharon Brown)
	Healthy Me Contract Activities (Word, 183 KB) (created by Shae Gregory)
	Roald Dahl (Publisher, 305 KB) (created by Belinda Butler and Ros Sell, Bli Bli State School)
	A River's Journey (Publisher, 380 KB) (created by Belinda Butler and Ros Sell, Bli Bli State School)
	Whatever the Weather (Publisher, 196 KB) (created by Belinda Butler and Ros Sell, Bli Bli State School)
	Those magnificent men and their flying machines! (Word, 229 KB) (developed by Alisa Altmann)
	What a Disaster! (Word, 32 KB) (developed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Book Contracts (Word, 1546 KB) (developed by Michele North, Principal, Pukehina School, Te Puke) These contract activities have been developed around Anderson's Taxonomy. Download the cover sheets and rationale (978 KB)
	Our Values (Word, 386 KB) (developed by Katrina Long, © Kingaroy State School)
	Being Respectful (Word, 470 KB) (developed by Michele North, Principal, Pukehina School, Te Puke)
	Busted! (Word, 472 KB) (developed by Mary-Anne Aland and Sharon Brown)
	Are You Game? (Word, 449 KB) (developed by Katrina Long)
	Alien Contract (Word, 324 KB) (developed by Alisa Altmann)
	Our Kingdom (Word, 373 KB) (developed by Katrina Long and Leighanne Hann)
	What Did They Discover? (Explorers) (Word, 274 KB) (designed by Katrina Long)
	Ho! Ho! Ho! (Christmas) (Word, 231 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	People Who Help Us (Word, 221 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Let's Play! (Toys and Games) (Word, 414 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Wheels, Wings and Water Things (Transport) (Word, 380 KB) (designed by Julie Totoro, Shae Gregory and Louise Simms)
	Let's Get Physical! (Sports) (Word, 230 KB) (designed and adapted by Katrina Long)
	World Trip (Word, 323 KB) (designed by Alisa Altmann)
	Waste Wise Contract (Word, 1052 KB) (designed by Helen Cairns, Portland South Primary School)
	Creepy Crawlies (Word, 233 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Inventions, Machines and Change (Word, 149 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton, Jenni McKeering and Jo Sweetman)
	Dinosaurs (Word, 512 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Fairy Tales (Word, 321 KB) (designed by Celeste Koekemoer)
	Farms (Word, 258 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Food (Word, 366 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Monsters (Word, 209 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Myths and Legends (Word, 325 KB) (designed by Merle Kent and Nicole Day)
	Perfect Pets (Word, 536 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Under the Sea (Word, 236 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	A Walk in the Jungle (Word, 309 KB) (designed by Denise Tarlinton)
	Wow! It Works! (Inventions) (Word, 352 KB) (designed by Katrina Long and Denise Tarlinton)
	ANZAC Contract (Word, 238 KB) (designed by Sue Urban, Saint Joseph's Primary School, South Australia)

What are Think It! Contract Activities?

These theme-based contract activities have been designed by educators to incorporate a number of different thinking skills, strategies and approaches. You will find activities that use a variety of Tony Ryan’s Thinker’s Keys, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (SMARTS) and Edward deBono’s Six Thinking Hats, as well as other higher-order thinking skills. Graphic Organisers are used throughout these activities in different ways and for different purposes. Most activities fit within the upper levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Read the Contract Activities Rationale for the principles behind the use of contracts within the classroom.

These contract activities are ready to download or print directly from your computer and come with a cover page for each student and a number of activities (15- 21) that promote divergent and creative thinking. Print one or print them all. Save them and change them to suit your individual students. Use the format of these contracts to design your own (we’d love you to send us a copy if you do).

Activities can be printed out and made into activity books for each child or displayed in hanging pockets with children selecting the activities they wish to work on. Children work at their own pace and at their own ability level to complete thinking tasks.

These activities could also be used for extension tasks, small group activities, "not-so-boring homework" tasks, journal writing starters and as 5 minute fillers. Explicit teaching of thinking skills should be an integral part of any program incorporating these contract activities.

All of these contract activities have been tried and tested in our classrooms and have proven to be a huge hit with our students. These activities are designed to be exciting, challenging and at all times FUN!!

WARNING: As these contracts have been designed (in Microsoft Word and Publisher format) to be as visually stimulating for students as possible they contain images and can take a couple of minutes to download. As these are wonderful thinking resources ready to use immediately in your classroom with your students, we suggest they are really worth waiting for!

© Kurwongbah State School (Permission is granted for downloading, saving and printing for use in classrooms and schools for educational purposes only).