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Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills with Engaging Activities

Explore various activities to stimulate critical thinking in the classroom. Understand the concept of critical thinking and its significance in education. Foster analytical skills through puzzles, analogies, and more.

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Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills with Engaging Activities

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  1. Let’s jump right in! • Study the photos that are on your table. (Do not remove any stickers or Post-its.) • With your table partners, try to determine the function or context of each photo. • Choose one photo, and complete a “claim form” defending your determination.

  2. Five Activities to Promote Critical Thinking in Any Classroom

  3. What do we mean by “critical thinking”? • The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement, (Google dictionary) • Disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence, (dictionary.com) • Characterized by careful analysis and judgement, (Webster’s New World Dictionary)

  4. Five Critical Thinking Activities (and maybe a few more) • Mystery Pieces

  5. Five Critical-Thinking Activities • Mystery Pieces, (and custom puzzles) • “Ramp It Up”

  6. Seven minus two plus a few more Critical Thinking Activities • Mystery Pieces, (and custom puzzles) • “Ramp It Up” • “Single-Layer Concept Builder” • Analogies • Left-brain, Right-brain journals • Cornell notes • Error Analysis • Word Maps • False Definitions • Drawing, tableau, sculpture • Cause and effect chain • Place Post-its on examples in magazines, newspapers, around campus, etc.

  7. Five Critical Thinking Activities • Mystery Pieces, (and custom puzzles) • “Ramp It Up” • “Single-Layer Concept Builder” • “Multi-Layer Concept Builder”

  8. Five _______Thinking Activities (and maybe a few more) • Mystery Pieces, (and custom puzzles) • “Ramp It Up” • “Single-Layer Concept Builder” • “Multi-Layer Concept Builder” • “Apples to Apples”

  9. Fourteen Activities to ______ Critical Thinking in Any Classroom • Mystery Pieces, (and custom puzzles) • “Ramp It Up” • “Single-Layer Concept Builder” • “Multi-Layer Concept Builder” • “Apples to Apples” • Fishbowl

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