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  • ALERT Connections
    • Extra Time >
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        • Biomes
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        • Earth News >
          • Can 100% renewable energy power the world?
          • The Canadian Desert
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          • King of the Plastic Bottle Castle
          • Mind Craft: Elephant Learning
          • National Geographic: Planet or Plastic?
          • An Olympic First: Cardboard Beds for Tokyo 2020
          • Plastic Roads
          • Our Sinking Planet
          • The Sargasso Sea
          • Scientific Tomatoes
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          • Tall Tale: The Sequoia
          • Why Birds Matter
        • Earth Imagery and Mapping >
          • Cape Town’s Water is Running Out
          • Cloud Formation Over Hainan
          • Emi Koussi and Wind Grooves
          • Floating Islands of India
          • Geothermal Energy Investigations in Iceland
          • A Ring of Green Around Surgut
          • ​Sedimentation: Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania ​
          • When Rivers are Borders
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          • Yesterday and Tomorrow Islands
        • Energy Sources
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        • Global Warming
        • The National Parks
        • Nature's Habitat Book Clubs >
          • Deadly Waters Club Blog
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          • Missing Manatee Club Blog
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          • Smithsonian Science News Blog
        • Online Nature's Habitat Resources
        • Persuasive Communication
        • Reforestation >
          • Socratic Seminar: Good and Bad Ways to Pursue Reforestation?
        • Troubled Waters Cooperative Game
        • UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites
        • Wildlife Chains and Webs Puzzle
        • Wildlife Ecosystems Puzzle
        • Wildlife Habitats Connections
        • Wildlife SET Puzzle
        • World Building Tools
      • Architecture >
        • Architectural Eras and Styles >
          • Colonial 1600-1700
          • Georgian 1700-1800
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          • Greek Revival 1820-1860
          • Victorian Era Styles 1840-1900 >
            • Italianate 1840-1880
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            • Romanesque Revival 1840-1900
            • Second Empire 1860-1890
            • Queen Anne 1880-1900
          • Stick Style 1860-1890
          • Shingle Style 1880-1900
          • Arts & Crafts 1880-1950
          • Skyscrapers 1885-present
          • Early 20th Century Revivals >
            • Colonial Revival 1870-1920
            • Tudor Revival 1900-1950
            • Mediterranean Revival 1890-1940
            • Spanish Mission Revival 1890-1920
          • Prairie Style 1900-1920 >
            • Frank Lloyd Wright Design Lessons
            • Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings
          • Art Deco 1925-1940
          • International or Modern 1920-1960
          • Postmodern and Contemporary 1950s-present
          • World Architecture >
            • African Architecture
            • Asian Architecture
            • European Architecture
            • North American Architecture
            • Oceania Architecture
            • South American Architecture
          • Vernacular Styles
          • Mimetic Architecture
        • House Styles Checklist >
          • Face Value: Facades and First Impressions
          • Take it from the Top! Rooflines
          • Level Up! Floors and Elevation
          • What a View! Windows
          • Matter Matters: Building Materials >
            • Textiles
            • Stone
            • Wood
            • Brick and Terra Cotta
            • Paper
            • Steel
            • Concrete
            • Glass
            • Foam
            • Plastic
            • Graphite and Carbon Fiber
          • Details, Details: Special Features
        • Future Architecture >
          • Ocean Architecture
          • Space Architecture
        • Sketchbook Exercises >
          • Dream House Sketch
          • The Hunt for Shapes
          • Impossible Shapes, Optical Illusions
          • Invisible Cities
          • Linear Perspective
          • Magazine Clipping Extension
          • Metamorphosis Step-by-Step Sketch
          • My Lines and Patterns
          • The Quadrilateral is the Key
          • Shelter from a Book
          • ​Spring Poetry Sketchbook Challenge
          • Value Scale Progression Sketch
          • Victorian Doghouse
          • View Through a Keyhole
        • Architecture Proposal Fall 2017 Project
        • Blueprinting
        • Model Building Tips
        • Raise the Roof!
        • Light it Up!--Electrical Circuits
        • Interiors
        • Scale: Putting People in the Picture
        • A Walk Down Main Street
        • Zeitgeist--Spirit of the Age
        • Presentation Ideas and Tools
        • Music of the Ages
        • Computer-Aided Design
        • Online Architecture Resources
        • Paper Cities by Foster+Partners
        • Abandoned Architecture
        • Chichen Itza Construction Challenge
        • The Well-Designed City >
          • Ancient Doors of Oman
          • The Coolest Architecture on Earth Is in Antarctica
          • Earthquake Building Design
          • Gingerbread City
          • Progress vs Preservation: China's Handshake Buildings
    • Mr. Durden
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    • Veterans Day
  • Metacognition
    • 5 Senses
    • 7 Habits >
      • Be Proactive: Gifts and Circles
      • Beginnings
      • First Things First: The Urgent-Important Matrix
      • Thinking Win-Win: Abundance-Scarcity, Courage-Consideration
      • Seeking Understanding
      • Synergizing
      • Sharpening the Saw
    • 7 Mindsets
    • ALERT Journals and Blogging
    • AVID >
      • SLANT
    • AQ Adaptability Quotient
    • ALERT Linear Metacognition Arrays
    • ALERT Mindmapping Game
    • Amateur to Expertise
    • Ambiguity and Uncertainty--Jerome Bruner
    • Atlas of Emotions--Paul and Eve Ekman
    • Audacity of Musicians, Magicians, and Thespians
    • Becoming T, π, or M-Shaped
    • The Bee
    • Bias and Flaws in Reasoning
    • Blind Spots
    • Cabinet of Curiosities
    • Caterpillars to Butterflies
    • Cloud Creation
    • Crab Buckets and Tallest Poppies
    • Creativity
    • Critical Thinking Model--Richard Paul
    • Cultivating Ourselves--Italo Calvino
    • Curiosity
    • Currents of Thought
    • Debate, Persuasion, and Rhetoric
    • Deep Thought--Kasparov and Chess
    • Delta Vee
    • Discipline
    • Everybody Knows
    • Fall in Love with Your Work--Sister Mary Lauretta
    • Flow--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    • Forging and Welding
    • The Fox and the Hedgehog
    • Full Throttle Learning
    • Genius
    • Gifted Bill of Rights--Del Siegle
    • Habits of Mind--Costa and Kallick >
      • HoM Accuracy and Precision
      • HoM Clarity and Precision
      • HoM Create Imagine Innovate
      • HoM Data and Senses
      • HoM Flexibility
      • HoM Humor
      • HoM Interdependence
      • HoM Learning Continuously
      • HoM Manage Impulsivity
      • HoM Past Knowledge New Situations
      • HoM Persisting
      • HoM Questioning and Posing Problems
      • HoM Responsible Risks
      • HoM Thinking about Thinking
      • HoM Understanding and Empathy
      • HoM Wonder and Awe
    • Hero with a Thousand Faces
    • How Will You Spend Your Days?--Annie Dillard
    • Ideas
    • Ikebana
    • Ikigai--A Worthy Life
    • Incognita or Nondum Cognita
    • Inductive Thinking--Hilda Taba
    • Inspiring History--David McCullough
    • Intensities & Overexcitabilities--Kazimierz Dabrowski
    • Interdependence and Cooperation
    • Journalists' Formula: 5W + 1H
    • Kintsugi
    • Learning Curves and Procedural Memory
    • Life of the Mind
    • Looking Through Lenses
    • Magic
    • Make Your Bed--Admiral McRaven
    • Memory >
      • The Magical Number 7
      • The Major System for Numbers
      • Memory Journeys and Mind Palaces
      • Memorizing Shakespeare
      • Mnemonics
      • People Memory: Names and Faces
      • Presentations, Poetry, and Quotations
    • Mental Models >
      • The Map Is Not the Territory
    • A Mind Forever Voyaging
    • Mindmapping and Sketchnoting >
      • Mindmapping and Sketchnoting Organizers
    • Mindsets--Carol Dweck
    • Missions
    • M2M: Month to Master
    • Moral Development Stages by Lawrence Kohlberg
    • Multiple Intelligences--Howard Gardner >
      • Amazing Artists >
        • Animated Art and GIFs
      • Community Connections
      • Energetic Engineers
      • Existential Inquiry
      • Kinetic Kids
      • Logic and Brain Games
      • Musicians
      • Natural Sciences
      • Readers & Writers
      • Reflection and Recharging
    • Myers-Briggs Personalities
    • Nature Inspiration >
      • Carl Sagan
      • Jane Goodall
      • Richard Dawkins
      • Richard Feynman
    • Navigators: Marshall Island Mattang
    • NERDS--Four Components of Creativity
    • Observe-Orient-Decide-Act
    • OCEAN
    • The One Moment--OK Go
    • One Sentence Exercise
    • Playing to Learn, Learning to Play
    • The Present
    • Project 2061
    • Pronoia
    • Quiet: The Power of Introverts
    • The Reality Bubble
    • Relativity
    • The Renzulli Model
    • The (W)Right Stuff
    • St Kevin and the Blackbird
    • SCAMPER Challenges >
      • Discover E Challenges
      • Hovercraft
      • Gumdrop Engineering
      • Puff Mobiles
      • Water Bottle Fountain
    • Science Fair: Nat Geo Documentary
    • Six Thinking Hats--Edward DeBono
    • Socratic Seminar
    • Story
    • The Toynbee Challenge
    • Tukilik: Objects created to have meaning
    • Under Construction
    • Unknown Knowns
    • Wanting
    • Wait, What?--James E. Ryan
    • What Would This Look Like If It Were Easy?
    • Worlds and Worldviews
  • Engineering
    • Engineer It! Introduction
    • Engineering Explorations!
    • 4th Grade ALERT Double Top Secret Airfield
    • Engineering News >
      • European Space Agency: Space Debris Report
      • The Future of Humanity Institute
      • LEGO Robo Rally
      • Montana Moon Rocks Help Astro Engineers
      • Sail Drones
      • Science News for Students
      • When Computers Were Human
    • Rube Goldberg
    • The Next BIG Idea
    • Timeline: Inventions
    • Aerospace Engineering >
      • 4th Grade ALERT Double Top-Secret Airfield
      • International Space Station By the Numbers
      • James Webb Space Telescope
      • NASA's Osiris-Rex Tags Asteroid Bennu
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Biomimetic Engineering >
      • Biomimetic Virtual Walk
      • Biomimetic Eyeball Benders
      • The Well-Built City >
        • 5x5 City Grid Game
        • Bamboo University
        • Mini Park Green Space Architecture Puzzle
        • Placemaking
        • Sustainable Architecture
    • Chemical Engineering
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      • Cities and Living: Pros and Cons
      • City Shapes
      • Cities of the Future
      • Cityscapes
      • Leonardo's Bridge
    • Computer Software Engineering
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    • Environmental Engineering >
      • Bikini Atoll Recovery South Pacific
      • Chagras National Park, Panama
      • Firefly Pest Control in Hubei Province
      • Glaciers of Bhutan
      • Gorongoza's Comeback, Mozambique
      • Indian Megacity Digging a Million Wells
      • Keystone Species: Bison of Bialowieza Poland
      • Loess Plateau Restoration, Chaina
      • Reforestation
      • Rewilding Scotland
      • Water
      • Rain Architecture: Chulalongkorn Park, Thailand
    • Materials Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering >
      • Reinventing the Wheel
      • Simple Machines
    • Nuclear Engineering
    • Science Lab >
      • Science Skills >
        • Science & Pseudoscience
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      • Inventions in Architecture
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      • Marie Curie--Pioneering Chemist
      • Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Rock Star
      • Benjamin Franklin: The First American
      • James Watt: Power and Perfectionism
      • Eli Whitney: Invention and Unintended Consquences
      • Alexander Graham Bell: The Telephone Man
      • Thomas Edison: The American Wizard
      • Nikola Tesla: Futurist
      • George Washington Carver: Science for All Americans
      • Henry Ford: Auto Industry
      • The Wright Brothers and Powered Flight
    • Teamwork
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      • NASCAR: Idea, Topic, and Issue
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      • The Curious Object: Idea, Topic, Issue
      • The Curious Phenomena: Idea, Topic, and Issue
    • Organizing Research: Mindmaps and Sketchnotes
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      • The Essay
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      • Train Your Voice: Vocal Range
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      • Be Confident for a Reason
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      • Be Present in the Moment
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      • Presentation Checklists
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      • Algebra Asteroids
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      • M3 Math: The Train Game
      • SET Puzzle
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    • The Beauty of Mathematics
    • Cryptarithms
    • Calculus: Change Over Time
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      • Statistics
      • Venn Diagrams
    • Fractions
    • Getting Into Shapes >
      • Archimedes and Approximations
      • Exploring Dimensions
      • Fiendish Plots: Coordinate Grids
      • The Golden Ratio
      • A History of Numbers
      • Six Straws, Four Triangles
      • Symmetry
      • Topology
      • 12 Straws and Squares Workout
    • Greg Tang Math
    • Hexa-Trex Arithmetic Mazes
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      • Logic Puzzles Coaching
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    • Mathematics of Mandalas >
      • Geometry of Indian Design
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    • Measurement & Scale
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    • Perimeter Magic Polygons
    • PI Day
    • Polyhedral Park Planner Roll and Write
    • Powers of Ten
    • Pythagoras and Right Triangles
    • The Pursuit of the Primes
    • Spherical Models
    • STAR Problem Solving
    • Sudoku Coaching and Puzzles
    • Which One Doesn't Belong?
  • World Peace Game
    • Activism
    • ALERT Game Design Lab >
      • Game Design with OODA Loops
    • Country/Cultural Studies
    • Crisis or Issue Briefing
    • Earth Imagery and Mapping
    • Failing States
    • Leadership Profiles
    • Science Study

Habits of Mind

The Habits of Mind are defined as the dispositions that are skillfully and mindfully employed by characteristically successful people when confronted with problems, the solutions to which are not immediately apparent.

The Habits of Mind have been developed and expanded by Dr. Arthur Costa and Dr. Bena Kallick since their initial list of 12 habits in 2000. 



Picture

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

Creating, Imagining, and Innovating

Finding Humor

Gathering Data Through All the Senses

Learning Continuously

Listening with Understanding and Empathy

Managing Impulsivity

Persisting

Questioning and Problem Solving

Responding with Wonderment and Awe

Striving for Accuracy and Precision

Taking Responsible Risks

Thinking About Your Thinking (Metacognition)

Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

Thinking Flexibly

Thinking Interdependently

Active Learning Experiences in Resourceful Thinking: Our  Mission
​The Richland School District Two ALERT program for academically gifted students, in association with families, the district and global community, affords each learner unique challenges to inspire the pursuit of highest academic standards by providing rigorous, differentiated curricula that cultivates excellence in leadership and life-long learning.


Updated:  17 January 2021
Webpage maintained by the Active Learning Experiences in Resourceful Thinking (ALERT)  classes of Richland School District Two, Columbia, South Carolina.
Please direct queries to Mr. Kevin Durden.