Critical Thinking

This 56-page book contains several of our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles. It develops the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. These award-winning, fun puzzles are also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills!Students learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® story and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things. The key is to make sure you get all the information out of each clue, by starting with the most obvious associations, then deducing the less obvious associations until everything finally fits together.Step-by-step instructions and detailed answers are included. Puzzles increase in difficulty.

Can you build and solve the ultimate STEM challenge? Put your physics skills to the test with the TurboPop! STEM Challenge, the build it, pop it, solve it engineering game from Learning Resources. Load the balls into TurboPop!'s air cannon, press down, and pop! They go flying! Once you've mastered the cannon, it's time to take on the set's STEM-inspired challenges, which introduce kids to force, motion, velocity, and other physics fun. Challenges ramp up in difficulty to encourage leveled play and continued development. Pop your way through the hoops, off the wall, and towards the target - TurboPop!'s STEM challenges encourage critical thinking and open-ended play as you build and test your way to a solution. Once you've solved the included challenges, you can even invent your own physics games and challenge your friends and family! Like all of Learning Resources' STEM Challenges, TurboPop! is completely kid-powered - no batteries, rubber bands, or springs required!

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.

Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

Foster your first grader'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 science, math, social studies, and language arts content)The 100+ activities are organized around these 1st grade themes:• Animals: Cats and Dogs; Giraffes and Elephants• Plants: Trees and Flowers; Fruits and Vegetables• Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes and Trains• Places: The Playground and the Beach; Home and SchoolGrade 1 activities include puzzles, word problems, drawings, and matching that involve critical thinking skills such as: • Analyze• Solve• Reason• Decode• 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.

Mind Benders®, our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles, develop logic, reading comprehension, and mental organizational skills that are vital to achieving high grades and top test scores in all subjects. They're also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills.MethodsYour students will learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® puzzle and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things. The key is to start with the most obvious associations, then deduce less obvious associations until everything finally fits together.Teaching SupportIncludes step-by-step instructions and detailed answers. Book levels spiral in difficulty within grade range.

Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It's the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It's the brand that says "It's fun to be smart!" And it delivers.For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.

Fractured Fairy TalesBased on Blooms Taxonomy. Your students will practice literacy and critical thinking skills as they enjoy a twist of the unexpected. Activities include: choral fractured fairy tale readings; The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; 10 original fractured fairy tales, and write your own fractured fairy tales. 80 pages.Grade: 2-4

Following up on the popularity of Funny Sayings, WordTeasers introduces a second deck of conversation starters featuring idioms! Get your ducks in a row and use your noodle to answer these fun and engaging questions! Turn the card over and learn the meaning and origin of the featured idiom.

Can you help these three smart pigs build their houses? Can you set them up so that the pigs can play outside? If you spot the wolf can you help the pigs stay safe inside their houses? Smart Little Piggies is a perfect brain game for young children. It features 3 big puzzle pieces that are easy to hold, and kids will be intrigued by the way the pigs fit inside the houses and look through the windows. The game includes a story book with images and booklet with 48 challenges (24 with the wolf and 24 without).

This colorful, fun 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests. It also teaches many academic concepts and skills taught in kindergarten and first grade. The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches students to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems. The book may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics.Concepts include: Visual Tracking, Visual Constancy, Visual Motor Skills, Spatial Relationships, Auditory Processing, Auditory Memory, Fine Motor Skill Development, Inferential Reasoning/Prediction, Deduction, Identifying Similarities & Differences, Classifying, Identifying Sequences, Completing Analogies, Creative Problem Solving, Colors, Logical Connectives (And, Or), Lines (Straight, Curved, Straight and Curved), Open & Closed Figures, Corners, Geometric Shapes (Circle, Triangle, Rectangle, Square), Behind & In-Between, Above & Below, Measurement (Longer, Longest, Shorter, Shortest, Larger, Largest, Smaller, Smallest), Half & Whole, and Left & Right.

Critical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students' problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and "what if" questions. Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students' higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world. Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students' critical and creative thinking skills.How it works:• Monday-Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill. • Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area. • Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills. • An answer key provides sample responses for each day's activities. Evaluate students' responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered.Grade 4 activities include: logic puzzles, creative writing, picture comparisons, and "what if" questions. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as: • Analyzing• Predicting• Designing• Composing• Organizing • Evaluating• Imagining • Strategizing