Thinking Skills, Grades 3-4 - Teacher Reproducibles, E-book

Help your students become 21st-century problem solvers by introducing them to a broad range of critical-, creative-, and logical-thinking skills!

Interactive and reproducible activities motivate students as they practice thinking skills:

Critical Thinking

• Sorting, Classifying: What Doesn't Belong, Connections, A Sizable Matter, What Equipment Will We Need?, Favorite Flavors
• Comparing and Contrasting: Puzzling the Planets
• Analyzing: Curly Q's, The Cat Family, The Animal Club
• Evaluating: What Do You Need to Know?, A Long Time Ago Someone Said..., Who Is Right?
• Observing: Lucky Shoes, My Coat
• Ordering: The Most Important Things
• Problem Solving: Treasure Map, Decisions, It's Your Choice, Pulley Puzzle

Creative Thinking

• Fluency: Talented Toothpicks, You Scream! I Scream!
• Flexibility: Toothbrush Transformations, What Could It Be?, The Penny Grid
• Original Ideas: Combine and Create
• Problem Solving: A Flat Problem
• Mental Imagery: Who's in the Spotlight?, Mother's Plate

Logical Thinking

• Analogies: Exploring Analogies, More Analogies
• Deductive Reasoning: Smith Street, Silly Syllogisms, Who Ate the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?, Where Is Burton?, Let's Go Ice-Skating, Backyard Projects, At the Amusement Park, Off to Camp!
• Patterning: What's the Pattern?, What's Next?
• Comparing and Contrasting: You Be Day, I'll Be Night
• Generalizing: Long Ago, Does It Make Sense?
• Problem Solving: Look Again!