Critical Thinking

Fifty, 2-page activities to help students build skills in vocabulary, grammar, spelling, writing, reading comprehension and fluency, handwriting, and more. Students will quickly learn how to follow the routine and jumpstart their learning at the beginning of the day—or anytime! A great way to prepare students for standardized tests and meet the Common Core State Standards! 112 pages. When is the best time for a Jumpstart activity? At the start of the school day, as a way to help children settle into the day's routines. Before lunch, as children ready themselves for their midday break. After lunch, as a calming transition into the afternoon's plans. Toward the end of the day, before children gather their belongings to go home, or as homework!

With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that delve deeper to give students a better understanding of mathematical concepts. With 180 Days of Problem Solving, students will be taken on a year-round problem solving adventure with thematic units that focus on the skills that second grade students need to meet today's standards. This useful resource provides daily practice that goes beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills. Aligned with national standards, 180 Days of Problem Solving prepares students for college and career readiness.
Weekly thematic units hone in on a standards-based problem solving skill
Throughout the week the problem solving skill is introduced in fun and interesting ways to engage students as they boost their ability to tackle different types of routine and non-routine problems, and how to apply these skills in real-life situations
Easy-to-use lessons strengthen critical thinking skills so students can feel confident as they work on multi-step, higher-level problems

Fifty, 2-page activities to help students build skills in vocabulary, grammar, spelling, writing, reading comprehension and fluency, handwriting, and more. Students will quickly learn how to follow the routine and jumpstart their learning at the beginning of the day—or anytime! A great way to prepare students for standardized tests and meet the Common Core State Standards! 112 pages. When is the best time for a Jumpstart activity? At the start of the school day, as a way to help children settle into the day's routines. Before lunch, as children ready themselves for their midday break. After lunch, as a calming transition into the afternoon's plans. Toward the end of the day, before children gather their belongings to go home, or as homework!

This colorful, engaging 272-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades K-1. It uses a series of lessons with math manipulatives and language integration techniques to teach thinking skills.

This program is designed to:
-Improve young children's observation and description skills
-Stimulate vocabulary development
-Clarify thinking processes that underlie content learning (observing, describing/defining, identifying similarities and differences, sequencing, classifying, and recognizing analogy)
-Improve students' conceptualization of mathematics, social studies and science concepts taught in the primary grades

The five cognitive skills developed in this series (describing, finding similarities and differences, sequencing, classifying, and forming analogies) were selected because of their prevalence in academic disciplines and their frequency in objective tests. Since improved school performance is an important goal of thinking skills instruction, many variations of each of these thinking skills are promoted in the activities.

Thinking skills are sequenced in the order in which a child develops intellectually. A child first learns to observe and describe objects, to recognize the characteristics of an object, and then to distinguish similarities and differences between the objects. Describing, comparing, and contrasting skills are necessary to a child's ability to put things in order, to group items by class, and to think analogically.

KEVA® Brain Builders Junior will train brains to think in a whole new dimension- a great first step towards STEM. Features photos of fun, recognizable objects to replicate-letters, numbers, the sun, dragonfly and more! The set includes 20 KEVA planks, puzzle cards and instructions that fit neatly in a zippered carrying case, making them the perfect on-the-go activity. For ages 4 and up.

Put your critical thinking to the test and fire up the strategic problem solving! Stack, pattern and match the multicolor shapes. Don't be fooled by appearances, these endlessly enjoyable blocks mean brain-boosting business. Mental Blox help children practice following verbal instructions, asking questions and build critical thinking skills. Activity cards provide children with examples of what to build. Children can recreate what is on the card or can give verbal instructions to a partner or group. Pieces feature four different shapes and 3 different attributes for a real challenge! Includes 20 chunky plastic blocks, 40 double sided activity cards, and activity guide. Blocks measure 2" x 2". Age 5+/Grades K+.

Pick up a pencil and sharpen your deductive reasoning skills with these challenging logic puzzles. Each puzzle categorizes information and lists clues below. By using the "cross-out-and-circle" technique, you will practice logical thinking in order to find the correct answer. Includes 48 full-page puzzles with solutions. Reproducible.

Recommended Ages: Ages 10 to 11

Winner of the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Award
Named one of the best educational toys by USA Weekend

Solve the Puzzle to Stop the Stampede!

The Story . . . The river is rising and the rapids are raging! Can you help the animals to safety by solving the puzzle? AnimaLogic is a brilliant new puzzle game that will have children working their brain overtime to solve these wonderfully smart safari stumpers!

Lions, hippos, giraffes and camels are all waiting to get to the other side of the river. The animals know they may only cross the river bridge one at a time and they must travel in the proper order to safely arrive at the other side. With sixty puzzles and five levels of difficulty (beginner to advanced), these logic puzzles have players solving the correct sequence to remove the sixteen wooden animals from the game board.

Expect sequencing, color and object recognition, and matching abilities to refine quickly. For logic building - AnimaLogic is progressively more challenging with each puzzle attempt - it's WILDLY effective entertainment! AnimaLogic captures the interest of the whole family.


·Marvelously high quality, educational game
·Captures interest of a wide range of ages and abilities
·Game Contents:
·16 wooden animals in yellow, blue, green and red.
·4 lions—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red
·4 hippos—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red
·4 giraffes—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red
·4 camels—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red
·Durable game board
·Game notebook (includes 60 full color puzzles and solutions)

Pick up a pencil and sharpen your deductive reasoning skills with these challenging logic puzzles. Each puzzle categorizes information and lists clues below. By using the "cross-out-and-circle" technique, you will practice logical thinking in order to find the correct answer. Includes 48 full-page puzzles with solutions. Reproducible.

Recommended Ages: Ages 8 to 9

This version is the most sophisticated Mindo game. Serene game play, high-quality tiles, and more challenging puzzles to solve make this the perfect way to pass the time. Indulge in hours of peaceful brain teasing, or take it with you while on the go in the small, compact box.

To solve the puzzles, turn and flip the double-sided tiles until you recreate the color pattern on the challenge card. They only fit one way into the 4 x 4 grid; can you figure it out? Includes 60 different challenge cards and 4 levels of difficulty ensure hours of relaxing meditation.

For 1 player, ages 8 and up. Play Time: 20 minutes. Skills: Visual Perception, Logic, and Focus and Attention.

Contents: 60 Challenge Cards (with solutions), 9 Tiles, and Illustrated Rules.

This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided for each passage so students can investigate the text in even deeper and more meaningful ways.

This resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills.

Foster your child's critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practice.

The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:
• Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges
• Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities
• Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on PreK science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these PreK themes:
• Insects: Butterflies and Grasshoppers; Honeybees and Ladybugs
• Weather: Different Types of Weather; We Dress for the Weather
• Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes, Trains, and Boats
• Community: Homes in My Community; Places to Visit

PreK activities include tracing, counting, dot-to-dot, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:
• Recall and Retell
• Analyze
• Solve
• Determine
• Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing. Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver! Includes answer key.