Laminated Wall Posters for Each Kind of Thinking 

I think classrooms need visual reminders about the four thinking patterns. I would like each pattern to be a different color and have a different graphic symbol.
This has worked very effectively for reading comprehension strategies from the books Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension, Understanding and Engagement and Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension to Primary grades.
The six strategies are Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. Each Strategy poster has a symbol like for Making Connections is puzzle pieces connected. The teachers and students developed a common vocabulary by having these posters on the walls in the classrooms. I think something should be made for ThinkBlocks like this. Do not make posters too large as wall space is at a premium in most classrooms. Also, put two small holes in the top so the posters can be tacked to bulletin boards without ruining the posters.

Think Tiles with Geometric Shapes on Them 

While teaching kindergartners how to analyze a person or an animal for basic shapes, it dawned on me that tiles could be made with geometric shapes and forms(for art)/geometric solids (for math). This would have multiple uses as one could use them to show the match of shapes to forms; how to flatten forms into shapes for drawing or painting; for knowing names of shapes and forms. We use "Mr.Shape Man" to teach children how to draw a person: Head-circle or oval; neck-rectangle; upper torso-square or trapezoid; lower torso-square or trapezoid; legs to knee-2 rectangles; legs from knee to ankle-2 rectangles; foot-right angle triangle; upper arms-2 rectangles; lower arms-2 rectangles;
hands-two squares;finger-10 small rectangles. You would need multiples of some shapes to use them in this way. A face could be analyzed with shapes in the same way. We will use this way to learn to analyze a squirrel so students will be able to draw one when starting the unit on squirrels. adapting to different seasons. You could arrange shapes by straight sides, curved sides or by number of sides, etc.

Understanding Dimensionality through Flat Stanley/Art/Math/Science 

For some reason, the concept of two and three dimensions eludes students in elementary school despite being taught from kindergarten through sixth grade.
I experimented with using ThinkBlocks to help students solidify this concept.
By using Flat Stanley, a character in a well known series of children's books,
students could begin to grasp the concept through a series of questions. I labeled each of two larger ThinkBlocks with 2-D and 3-D. I began by asking, which block I would put Flat Stanley in and which block I would put the rest of Flat Stanley's family. Using students' own words we would label the dimensions of each of the larger ThinkBlock (ie, thick, fat, tall, wide). Then, I labeled each of three medium blocks with length, width and depth. Students were asked to put the correct dimensions in each large block. I tested for understanding by having tiles with pictures of two and three-dimensonal shapes and forms (or geometric solids, the term used in math) into the correct large ThinkBlock; tiles with images of 2-D and 3-D objects were used in the same way and then to push thinking to show there are always confusers in life, I dampened a piece of paper and then asked if it was 2-D
or 3-D as the edges of the paper curled. This idea was inspired by the work of artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto who is having an exhibit at the Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston, Virginia. He created paper from natural fibers and let the paper dry naturally into beautiful forms. See www.restonarts.org.