Critical thinking for tomorrow's world
Contributors: Riley, J.; Waters, T.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Frank Schaffer
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hawthorn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780867347845
Subjects: Activity programs in education; Thought and thinking; Study and teaching; Critical thinking; Activity programs; Problem solving
Notes: A Teacher resource book for middle and upper grades.
Table of contents: title: Worksheets. Activity sheets. Life skills. Social skills. Cross-curricular subjects. Interdisciplinary subjects. Logic and geography: learn to locate and classify information. Geographic analogies. Related words. Category grid. Getting acquainted. Foreign exchange. States, capitals and rivers. New products and brainstorming: evaluate ideas and generate new ideas. Listing. Brainstorming value. Sounds like. Descriptive synonyms. Awesome animal alliterations. Imaginative travel. Forced association. Personification. Square drawings. Party planner. What is the question? Sentence beginnings. New products. Law: Decision making: define problems and formulate questions. Resolving conflict. The case of the missing pet. The case of the vanishing skateboard. The green grass caper. The baby sitter's dilemma. The gold rush caper. The case of denial of equal rights. The tea conflict. The land question. Classroom synetics: make comparisons. Everyday synectics. Synectics and life sciences. Visual perception: communicate effectively in a group. Spatial thinking. Figural sequences. Figural analogies. Mirror pictures. 3-D boxes. Tricky square. Tricky letter.