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 Fourth Grade
Shell Education
$23.99Help fourth grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. 180 Days of Problem Solving: • Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual...$23.99 -
180 Days of Problem Solving for Kindergarten
Shell Education
$23.99Take 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...$23.99 -
IQ Twist Game 1-Player Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$18.99From 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...$18.99 -
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...$16.99 -
IQ Stars
Smartgames®
$18.99A 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...$18.99 -
Color Code Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$25.99Stack 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...$25.99 -
180 Days of Problem Solving for First Grade
Shell Education
$23.99Take 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...$23.99 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 5
Shell Education
$25.99This 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...$25.99 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 3
Shell Education
$25.99This 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...$25.99 -
Secret Code
Quercetti®
$20.99A 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...$20.99 -
What Would You Do? Book
Creative Teaching Press®
$19.99A 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...$19.99 -
Math Detective Book, A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$20.99This 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...$20.99 -
Reading Detective Rx, Grade 6-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$25.99These 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...$25.99 -
Science Detective A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$23.99The mind-building lessons and activities in this 176-page book teach topics and skills drawn from state and national science standards to prepare students for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading...$23.99 -
Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$17.99This 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...$17.99 -
Daily Mind Builders Science Book, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$17.99This 144-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...$17.99 -
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$17.99This 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...$17.99 -
American Trivia Flash Card, 150 Questions
Wordteasers
$15.95Show off your knowledge of American Trivia by answering these 150 fascinating, sometimes quirky questions about the United States. As with all WordTeasers decks, each card contains a wide range of information about the place or person discussed on the...$15.95Qty in Cart: 0Price:$15.95Subtotal: -
The MindUP Curriculum: Grades 6-8
Scholastic Teacher Resources
$24.99Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning By The Hawn Foundation Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and...$24.99