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work_ojzorm7dy5c3bjn6ylxdiyszby	Meredith Root-Bernstein	Tools for thinking applied to nature: an inclusive pedagogical framework for environmental education	2014.0	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6787	713	55	Tools such as imaging, abstracting, pattern recognition, dimensional thinking, empathizing, modelling and synthesizing play key roles in practical ecology, biogeography and animal behaviour studies and in environmental and study nature share a common set of tools for thinking skills or tools common to creative problem-solving endeavours across disciplines (Table 1; Root-Bernstein & RootBernstein, 1999). between tools for thinking and multiple intelligences; training people to concentrate on a cluster of competences is field learn to use many or all of the tools for thinking. thinking explicit in science-based and avocational conservation activities will improve performance in relevant TABLE 1 Descriptions of the 13 tools for thinking, with examples of their application in conservation. capacity to use multiple tools for thinking, to transform or and use tools for thinking, such as imaging, body 1 An activity to train school students to use the tools of observation, pattern recognition and imaging (adapted from	./cache/work_ojzorm7dy5c3bjn6ylxdiyszby.pdf	./txt/work_ojzorm7dy5c3bjn6ylxdiyszby.txt