Activities for Developing Thinking Skills

Activities for Developing Thinking Skills

Creative and critical thinking

by Bess Wellner and Jan Yoder

Activities for Developing Thinking Skills provides instruction and suggestions for the explicit teaching of thinking skills to all students. It provides a balanced approach to creative and critical thinking, developing both divergent and convergent thinking skills as part of the thinking process.

The book is divided into two halves each having four sections as follows:

SECTION 1: PRODUCTIVE THINKING

• Fluency 
• Flexibility 
• Elaboration 
• Originality

SECTION 2: PRODUCTIVE PLANNING

• Evaluation 
• Planning 
• Forecasting 
• Decision making

Each section can be completed over the course of a week in three-to-four, thirty-minute sessions.

Age Suitability: 7-14

ISBN-10: 1741016312
ISBN-13: 978-1741016314