Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor
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Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor is written by inventor and animal scientist Temple Grandin. It details the author’s failures as well as her successes. It is a good opportunity to show students that it is okay to fail. In fact, failure is often a valuable learning experience on the road to success. Students will learn that Grandin is on the autism spectrum and speaks openly about her challenges and advantages growing up as an autistic person.
Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor is written by inventor and animal scientist Temple Grandin. It details the author’s failures as well as her successes. It is a good opportunity to show students that it is okay to fail. In fact, failure is often a valuable learning experience on the road to success. Students will learn that Grandin is on the autism spectrum and speaks openly about her challenges and advantages growing up as an autistic person.
The “All Minds” in the title of the book refers to the author’s assertion that different kinds of minds and thinkers are valuable and important contributors to society, each in their own way. This is an opportunity for students to think about their own differences and similarities with others and how this impacts how they learn and what interests them.
Related Components
- Teacher Guide: includes detailed guidance and activities for reading and discussing the stories, as well as writing instruction.
- Activity Book: contains activity pages to accompany the lessons from the Teacher Guide. Additionally, there are Student Resources at the back of the Activity Book.
Bundles:
- Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor Homeschool Set:
1 Student Reader
1 Teacher Guide
1 Activity Book - Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor Classroom Set:
25 Student Readers
1 Teacher Guide
25 Activity Books - Grade 6 Complete Grade-Level Set:
For each of eight CKLA titles:
25 Student Readers
1 Teacher Guide
25 Activity Books
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Paperback
7 in. W x 9 in. H
240 pages
ISBN: 978-1524738228
