81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities: Engaging Activities and Reproducibles to Develop Kids' Higher-level Thinking SkillsHelp children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing. |
Contents
Introduction | 4 |
Recognizing and Recalling Activities | 6 |
Distinguishing and Visualizing Activities | 20 |
Activities for Following Directions and Classifying | 36 |
Sequencing and Predicting Activities | 50 |
Activities fop Inferring and Drawing Conclusions | 64 |
Evaluating Activities | 74 |
Analyzing Activities | 88 |
Synthesizing Activities | 102 |
Answers | 115 |
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Anagram analyze animals answer Antarctica Arctic Ask students birthplace calls for students cards cats Charles Goodyear classmate coat of arms color Content Area creature products creature sea creature Cross-Curricular Links Activity Dare Dare deer double dare Elizabeth Blackwell Encourage students explain fact Flower Power Fold follow directions Francis Crick Gomuku Gregor Mendel help students Here's Hero Hide an Elephant Instructions for teacher-led inventions Invite students language arts letters Literature-Based Magic Squares Math Multicultural Neil Armstrong Notes for Student ocean Odd Couples Origami palindrome partner plant plant plant player Possible responses prime numbers problem Puzzle Pattern Pyramid quarts questions Rachel Carson Recycled Words science/social studies sea creature sea sentence shape share skip a line solve Sports Hall strategies Student Reproducibles students complete submarine Surf and Turf tangram Teacher Notes thinking Trivia Trackdown tulips What's write Yellow Submarine