Critical Thinking

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.

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.

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.

Explores pros and cons of several issues related to bullying including; whether the internet is to blame, if schools are doing enough to prevent it, and punishments associated with bullying. Text contains critical thinking components in regards to social issues and history. Describes common argumentative techniques such as; the bandwagon technique, scapegoating, and bias. Includes bibliographic notes, timeline, glossary, index, additional resources and step-by-step instructions for writing an opinion-based essay. Aligns with Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards for Reading Informational Text and Speaking and Listening. Correlations available on publisher's website.

This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a student's reading score—and every Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts activity develops this skill.The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves deductive thinking, and is designed to build vocabulary and associative thinking skills. This puzzle uses a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Try a sample and you'll be hooked!The best use of these books is when presented as a non-threatening, non-graded, fun activity where students are praised for all logical answers even if they don't happen to be the correct answers. Remember, in critical thinking, the journey is as important as the destination, and all reasonable efforts at critical thinking should be commended.These intriguing puzzles can also be used as a: Motivational beginning activity as an addition to the curriculum. Culminating activity after a lesson or at the end of the day. Fill-in activity when there is an awkward time break during the school day. Valid educational activity for students who finish assigned activities earlier than their classmates.

A Kid's Guide to Tricky and Sticky Situations! This best-selling character education book has been updated and improved! It is great for helping kids learn how to do the right thing!Flat bike tires, forgotten homework, obscene phone calls—more than 70 situations kids could encounter when they are on their own. The prompts in this What Would You Do? book are perfect for skits, journal writing, or class discussions. The discussion of these situations will help children build self-esteem, confidence, and decision-making skills. It will also provide important practice in critical thinking skills, making choices, and setting priorities. This book will help kids (and their parents) discuss and decide in advance how they will handle things like: peer pressure, dangerous strangers, fears & feelings, cuts, bites & stings, fires & leaks, and natural disasters. This book is a must for parents and teachers who want to prepare children for the unexpected, puzzling, and frightening situations that may arise when they are at home alone, at school, or out on their own. 184 pages.

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).

Can you build a cube from the 6 colorful, ball-shaped puzzle pieces? Put your spatial insight, logic and deduction skills to work as you create cubes to solve each challenge! Cube Puzzler Pro's case doubles as an attractive tray to play the game and solve the challenges. The game includes 80 real 3D-challenges and a challenge booklet with solutions.

These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping underperforming students in Grades 6-12+ understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. Concepts and skills covered include:Literary Analysis Skills• Define vocabulary using context clues• Recognize figurative language• Identify main idea, supporting details, and theme• Recognize literary devices• Identify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and charactersReading Detective® Beginning includes the following genres:Award-Winning Literature Excerpts• The House on Mango Street• The Face on the Milk Carton• Sarny• River• Out of the Dust• Sing Down the Moon• Call of the WildStories and Articles• Mystery• Humor• History• AdventureNonfiction Topics• Science• Math• Geography• History• Biography• Inventions• SportsThe Grades 6-12+ remedial (Rx) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. Rx activities are "prescriptive" to help under-performing students in Grades 6-12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is Grades 4–6; story content is Grades 6+. Teaching Support includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.

How has lighthouse technology changed over time? How do zookeepers keep zoo animals happy and healthy? Find the answers to these questions and more with this Spanish STEAM book set devoted to finding creative solutions to real-world problems!Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this set features hands-on STEAM challenges that are perfect for makerspaces and that guide students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields. Ignite a curiosity about STEAM in kids ages 4-6 with these titles:• Building Lighthouses• Finding the Right Container• Making More Doughnuts• Making Water Safe• Pulling Taffy• Solving Problems at the Zoo

Teaching the Brain: the new science of education helps teachers and parents understand how the brain develops in the classroom and the best techniques available for accelerated learning. Arm yourself with the most current neuro-scientific information and lead your children down the path to success. With this guide to cutting edge research, you'll find the keys to unlocking the learning potential in your students. Understand language, reading, spelling and writing acquisition in the brain. Recognize and overcome learning problems, including the differences behind dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD and autism.

This 48-page book contains several of our verbal deductive thinking puzzles. Unlike our other Mind Benders® products, these puzzles are read to students, so they develop the logic, listening, mental organization, and memory 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.