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Accessible thinking guides

Here are Exploratree's thinking guides that have been designed to work well with screen readers. They provide step-by-step text-only versions of the guides. We hope you find them useful and would welcome suggestions for how we can improve them.

Plus, minus, interesting
Evaluate by identifying pluses, minuses and interesting points
T.A.S.C.
Helps you think about and communicate any topics, issues or problems
Possible futures
Think about the way an issue may develop in the future
Use the essence
Get to the heart of the issue then look for new ideas
Examine ideas
Investigate evidence and other views then make new ideas
Blank template
A blank thinking guide where you can create your own from scratch
Tracking an enquiry
This thinking guide will help you to plan your enquiry
Futures wheel
Think through the consequences and knock-on effects
Lotus blossom
Create lots of ideas around an issue then turn ideas into actions
From a different angle
Examining a topic through a variety of different lenses
Thinking boxes
Analyse from different perspectives - local to global
Scamper
Substitute, combine, adapt, modify, rearrange
Reverse planning
Work backwards from the ideal future to a realistic present
Is / is not
Scope a problem by identifying what it is and is not
Complete reversal
Reverse a problem to stimulate new thinking when stuck
Compass rose
Examine things from a variety of perspectives
Facts or opinions
Sort out the facts from the opinions about a particular topic
Making meanings
Establish what you want to know
Compare and contrast
Make comparisons between two topics
Knowing trees
Think through a question and identify supporting evidence
Digging up roots
Explore a problem by digging down to its roots
Traffic lights
What changes would you make? Analyse a particular situation
Question things
Question everything you read, hear and see
A day in the life
Seeing things as they are experienced.
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