A redefinition of the concept of learning necessitates the development of a "thinking curriculum." Second in a series of nine video conferences, this guidebook describes components of a thinking curriculum, which is characterized by a dual agenda of content and process. Contents of the guidebook include pre- and post-conference activities, a program evaluation, essays and school-based activities highlighting conference topics, information about other video conferences in the series, computer forums, course credit information, a list of supplementary materials, 40 references amd five video sources, and a list of 9 regional resources. Bibliographic information is supplied on the conference presenters. (LMI)