The quest for a cure – thinking skills and activities

I loved this resource and expanded it with a lot of extras (theory and other exercises) to run with my yr 7 home language group in Uppsala, Sweden. Whole exercise took 15 weeks (met once a week) and ended with them doing a presentation of their journey and presenting the whole journey as a book after keeping a diary of the different stages. I produced a .ppt of the journey to guide them, but essentially it is something they did independently. Really brought out their creativity and was fun to do. Will run the same programme this year with the next yr7 group (with a few minor changes). Thank you so much for sharing this resource. I am willing to share my additions too, if any one is interested.

I might use it in an inservice training for teachers, as an example of a very attractive resource for Top Primary, linking creative and critical thinking.

Using it as a HW project for a difficult yr 9 boy. It has caught his imagination! I am adapting some of the writing tasks (eg, he can't do persiasive but can do descriptive, not so good at newspaper reports but fine with a TV news-style script). This work is independent of the main class/lesson stuff so if he doesn't complete it on time, it won't impact upon my lesson plans.

It was a good resource for students in the isolation room.

A really creative way to get the students interested in writing.

This is inventive and interesting and really scaffolds the task

using it for a 14 year old boy in order to inspire him to enjoy writing.