Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking
Activities: Help your students and kids develop critical thinking
skills. Activities in each book are
divided into three categories: pattern activities for discerning numerical patterns;
imaginary activities for exploring symmetry, congruence and rotation; and
logic problems where students find winning strategies and apply deductive
logic. Blackline masters with answer
keys. Approx. 168 pages in each book. Grades K-3 #DS4716 $15.99 Grades 4-6 #DS4406 $15.99 Grades 7-12 #DS4724 $15.99 Three Book Set: #DSCTA3 $47.50 |
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Cranium Crackers - Critical
Thinking Activities for Mathematics: Presents both mathematical and logic/verbal reasoning
problems—helping students develop the wide range of critical thinking skills
needed to succeed in mathematics.
Ideas are always introduced clearly and with simple examples. #CCBK1 Book
#1 Grades 3-4 $25.99 #CCBK2 Book
#2 Grades 5-6 $25.99 #CCBK3 Book
#3 Grades 7-8 $25.99 #CCBK4 Book
#4 Grades 9+ $25.99 #CCBK5 Four Book Set $99.95 |
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Critical Thinking
Puzzles: Puzzles, challenges, funky facts, things to build, weird riddles, and
other brainteasers. Some old
favorites, others totally new, but all promise hours of fun. Everyone can be completed with a pencil,
pen, or some inexpensive materials around the house, so see if you can think
your way through these critical thinking conundrums! 5” x 8”, 90 pages each
book, Grades 5 & up. Three
Book Set Includes: Critical Thinking Puzzles, Great Critical Thinking
Puzzles, and Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles - Over 200 puzzles. #STCRT $22.85 |
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180 Icebreakers: To
strengthen critical thinking & problem solving skills. Each icebreaker includes an intriguing
fact, a point to ponder, & a project to pursue. Incorporates William’s & Bloom’s taxonomies, the
icebreakers address each of the intelligences and the six levels of thinking. These activities will promote independent
thinking and will help students succeed in school and life. 96 pp, Grades 5 & up #IP3452 $11.99 |
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Thought Provokers & More
Thought Provokers: Challenge yourself, your family, and your
students by posting a daily Thought Provoker. Example: If there are 100
Hollywood people at a party, and each person kisses every other, how many
kisses take place? These creative,
instructive puzzles will entertain you while fostering cooperative learning
and developing critical thinking skills.
50 Thought Provokers in each book.
Blackline Masters. Solutions
provided. Grades 7-12. Thought Provokers Set: Two books. #KCTP $25.99 |
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First Time Analogies: The perfect place to begin learning analogies! This text is chock-full of visual and pictorial
analogies, presented in four sequential levels. 49 pp. Grades K-2 #DL55334 $9.99 |
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Thinking Through Analogies
& Advancing Through Analogies: Thinking
Through Analogies is a challenging array of investigations into the
similarities between two things builds vocabulary & critical thinking
skills. 40 pp, Grades 3-6. When students are ready for more advanced
analogies, Advancing Through Analogies is perfect for expanding vocabulary
and building flexibility and analytical thinking. 32 pp, Grades 5-8. Two Book Set #DLAN $14.95 |
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Chinese Brain Twisters: Fast,
Fun Puzzles That Help Children Develop Quick Minds. The 56 puzzles were passed down through generations of Chinese
families who wanted their children to develop concentration and mental
agility. Each puzzle inspires clear,
precise, and inventive thinking. Some
teach math concepts; others involve spatial relationships and
visualization. All of them have
fascinating solutions and help improve memory and problem-solving
skills. An inexhaustible source of
challenging fun, these are mental calisthenics for stimulating interaction
between lively minds from ages 8 to 80.
6 x 9, 118 pp, Grades 3-12 #WI595055 $15.99 More Chine Brain Twisters: 57 new stick-puzzle, number, and shape games to
boggle your mind. Ages 8 to 80, 118
pp, Grades 3-12. #WI46131 $14.99 Chinese Brain Twister Set: Two books. #WICBT $25.99 |
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Brainstorming: Over 800
topics that can be used to jumpstart brainstorming sessions. Outlines of sample brainstorming sessions
for beginners. Grades K-12, 72
pp. #CL941 $14.99 |
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Mind Joggers! 5 to 15
minute Activities that Make Kids Think.
Features more than 150 quickie activities in math, language and writing,
thinking and reasoning, listening and remembering to help you make the most
of each minute of the school day - while stimulating your students’ critical
thinking skills. Each activity is
ready to go at a moment’s notice and requires no more than paper and pencil
or chalkboard and chalk! Also
included are illustrative drawings, step-by-step directions, activity
extenders, and suggested grade level and group size guides. 207 pp, Grades K-6 #PH5833 $27.99 |
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Brain Teasers: Here are nearly
200 exciting “quickie” classroom activities and reproducible worksheets to
develop the thinking, reasoning and memory skills of K-6 students and help
them master both basic and advanced concepts in math, language, and writing. Each activity takes just 5 to 15 minutes
and requires no prior preparation - all you need are simple material already
in your classroom. And 82 full-page
worksheets can be copied at a moment’s notice for instant handout
assignments! 265 pp, Grades K-6 #PH1234 $27.99 |
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Brain Games: Ready to use
activities that make thinking fun. A
unique collection of over 170 reproducible exercises to fill your extra
classroom minutes with challenging and practical exercises that stimulate
your students to think and reason more intelligently and critically. The different sections include: Listening and remembering, across the
curriculum, language and writing, logic and reasoning, math, the world around
you and finally the section called - me.
248 pages, Grades 6-12 #PH1870 $29.99 |
