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.
