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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180 Days of Problem Solving for Kindergarten
Shell Education
$37.60Take 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...$37.60 -
Questions for Critical Thinking Quick Flip Resource
Edupress™
$5.99Hand-held flip charts make understanding learning theories and planning lessons easy! 5 x 6 inches. Take the mystery out of Bloom's Taxonomy with Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking. Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions, and plan lessons...$5.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$5.99Subtotal: -
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...$11.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$11.99Subtotal: -
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...$16.99 -
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 galaxy! And...$11.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$11.99Subtotal: -
Color Code Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$39.60Stack 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...$39.60 -
Day Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$44.60From 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...$44.60 -
Three Little Piggies Deluxe Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$41.60Can 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...$41.60 -
180 Days of Problem Solving for First Grade
Shell Education
$37.60Take 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...$37.60 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 5
Shell Education
$38.36This 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...$38.36 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 3
Shell Education
$38.36This 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...$38.36 -
Smithsonian Informational Text: Creative Solutions Spanish Grades K-1: 6-Book Set
Teacher Created Materials
$70.31How 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...$70.31 -
Mini Mysteries Book, Grades 3-6
Remedia Publications
$25.36Reluctant 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...$25.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$25.36Subtotal: -
Rami Code
Quercetti®
$58.00Rami 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...$58.00 -
Secret Code
Quercetti®
$34.60A 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...$34.60 -
What Would You Do? Book
Creative Teaching Press®
$32.36A 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...$32.36 -
Math Detective Book, A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$33.36This 128-page book uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math. Students read a short story that includes...$33.36 -
Reading Detective Rx, Grade 6-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$38.36These 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...$38.36 -
Reading Detective B1, Grades: 7-8
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$41.00These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 208-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in...$41.00