Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Books and Games
Educators know that it is not only important for students to learn information, but it is also important for them to think about what the information means. Critical thinking books, workbooks, and games help students learn to interpret information and increase understanding.
Critical Thinking Books
Books containing analogies, story problems, and mind builders help students make comparisons and draw conclusions while relating information to the world around them. When they put books like Teacher Created Resources’ Analogies for Critical Thinking, Carson Dellosa’s Solve Story Problems Using Pictures, and Evan-Moor’s Critical and Creative Thinking Activities to use, they may be required to apply what they know about objects to form an analogy, visualize how to solve an equation that could arise in everyday life, or imagine a solution to a problem they have yet to encounter.
Critical Thinking Workbooks and Games
Encouraging students to depart from routine ways of encountering information and solving problems can help them exercise their minds in new ways. Different from reading textbook chapters, completing skill and drill activities, or even listening to lectures, are the workbooks and games offered here to stimulate critical thinking. The Plexers and Plexers Workbooks by Pearson Learning each contain a series of puzzles with clues that students must crack to solve pictorial codes for words and phrases. Whether used on their own or as a warm-up activity for vocabulary or reading activities, the puzzles require students to approach acquiring information from a new direction that requires a different type of interpretation.
Critical thinking games can be incorporated into classrooms as supplements or substitutes for other teaching methods. For example, the You’ve Been Sentenced Card Game by McNeill Designs could complement sentence diagramming activities because it requires students to create grammatical and logical sentences from its unique word deck. In addition to being used in classrooms, these games make great educational tools for home use. Before they reach school age, students can enjoy games such as the Pattern Play Blocks from Mindware that teach them motor, sorting, matching, and other skills. Once students have reached school age and even after they have grown beyond school age, they can continue to enjoy and benefit from increasingly complex critical thinking games.
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IQ Twist Game 1-Player Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$11.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes IQ Twist. To solve each challenge players fill in the board with all of the pieces as shown in the included booklet, making sure that all of the colored pieces fit on the...$11.99 -
Cats & Boxes Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$16.99These cats love hiding in boxes! Move the puzzle pieces – one by one – until all of the cats are in a cardboard box. Can you help them find their favorite hiding spot? This sequential puzzle game for kids and adults comes with a portable...$16.99 -
Temple Trap
Smartgames®
$16.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Temple Trap. Avoid the alligators and other dangerous traps as you navigate your adventurer out of this shifting temple, flexing your logic muscles in this unique, beautifully...$16.99 -
Asteroid Escape Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$16.99Can you navigate your spaceship through an asteroid field? Your flying skills will be tested to the limit in order to escape! SmartGames Asteroid Escape is a galactic sliding puzzle with 60 missions, from beginner to expert. Includes a game board with...$16.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.99Subtotal: -
IQ Stars™
Smartgames®
$11.99A great introduction to SmartGames IQ series – but also challenging enough to test our most seasoned players! SmartGames IQ Stars features 120 challenges. Players are tested to fit all the 3D star pieces on the gameboard – creating a colorful...$11.99 -
Penguins on Ice™ Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$24.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Penguins on Ice. Penguins on Ice is an award-winning, completely unique game based on ancient Greek Pentomino...featuring puzzle pieces that shift in order to fit into place!...$24.99 -
Color Code™ Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$24.99Stack the tiles to recreate each composition layer by layer! Choose from 100 challenges just stack the right tiles in the right order. Game includes: 18 colored tiles, a practical tile display holder and game guide outlining challenges and solutions...$24.99 -
Dress Code™ Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$24.99The weather is acting out today: it's like having 4 seasons in 1 day! Can you help get these figurines dressed for the weather? But watch out! The order in which you get dressed is important! The perfect puzzle game for toddlers based on the hit game...$24.99 -
Safari Park Jr.™ Learning Game
Smartgames®
$26.993, 2, 1 and pose! These safari animals love to model for your camera! Can you get the animals in the picture-perfect position for the snapshot? Move them around the board... but don't forget the lion doesn't like water, the elephant can't climb over the...$26.99 -
Day & Night™ Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$29.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Day & Night. Re-create shapes and designs, block by block, with this beautifully crafted 3-D wooden puzzle. Young kids can begin with challenges whose blocks are revealed in the...$29.99 -
Three Little Piggies Deluxe Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$26.99Can 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...$26.99 -
Critical Thinking Skills, Following Directions Activity Book
Remedia Publications
$9.99Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more! This book is part of the Critical Thinking Skills Series that includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities, carefully...$9.99 -
Mini Mysteries Book, Grades 3-6
Remedia Publications
$11.99Reluctant readers of all ages are sure to have fun while they improve their reading sills with Mini Mysteries. Kids love a good mystery, and they won't be disappointed with the 26 "who-dunits" detective Sam Sherlock encounters in this reading...$11.99 -
Rami Code
Quercetti®
$42.99Rami celebrates 40 years of success. Winner of best educational toy of the year awards in multiple international competitions, and still unmatched in terms of playability and for its educational value, this toy helps small children to think creatively...$42.99 -
Secret Code
Quercetti®
$19.99A strategy game for two or more players, with two levels of difficulty. Using deductive reasoning and logic, the "decoder" has to break the "secret code" made up by the other player, in the least amount of tries. Then it's the first player's turn to...$19.99 -
KEVA® Brain Builders™ Junior
Keva®
$18.95KEVA® 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...$18.95Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.95Subtotal: -
TurboPop! STEM Challenge
Learning Resources
$21.99Can 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,...$21.99 -
Mental Blox™ Critical Thinking Game
Learning Resources
$29.99Put 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...$29.99 -
Conversation Cubes, 6 Per Set
Learning Resources
$14.99Spark discussions on the first day and beyond. Features 36 engaging questions about student experiences and perspectives, including: What is the most important thing you own? What do you want to be when you are older? What was the strangest dream you...$14.99 -
Create-a-Maze™
Learning Resources
$33.99Put your best-laid plans into motion with this brain-boosting, make-you-think game! Build a maze with curvy, colorful pieces by following the designs pictured on the Activity Cards. Then, push hand-eye coordination to the limit as you map a path through...$33.99