THINKING SKILLS
Higher Order & Creative Thinking Skills For Children

What are higher order thinking skills?

The skills of memorizing and recalling facts or information are called the lower-order thinking skills as they do not require wide and deep thinking. Sadly, much of the teaching and learning in schools today is based on the lower order thinking skills.

Thinking skills such as clarifying, making analysis, generating ideas, making decisions, problem solving, and planning which require wider and deeper thinking. These are called higher order thinking skills.

Brainy Bambino has written a book based on higher order and creative thinking skills for small children to develop regions of the brain that require a higher level of thinking.

"He who learns but does not think is lost".

Ebook (103 pages) including 100 ACTIVITIES in Total

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Why Encourage Higher Order Thinking?

Bright children are able to:

• Solve problems
• Think creatively
• Think critically
• Make decisions
• Generate new ideas
• Analyse information
• Plan for the future

The activities written in 'Higher Order & Creative Thinking Skills - 3 to 7 Year Olds' aim to unlock independent thinking in children. The fun and stress-free activities provide opportunities for open-ended response where children are encouraged to look at things differently and 'think outside the square.'

Our Activities to Promote Higher Order Thinking & Creative Thinking Skills include:

• Creating- Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things, designing, constructing, planning, producing and inventing;
• Evaluating- Justifying a decision or course of action, checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting and judging;
• Analysing- Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships, comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating and finding;
• Applying -Using information in another familiar situation, implementing, carrying out, using and executing;
• Understanding -Explaining ideas or concepts, interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying and explaining;
• Remembering- Recalling information, recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming and finding.

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Age - 3 to 7 Year Olds

This age bracket is an indication ONLY. Activities can easily be adapted to suit younger and older children.

Parents and carers will need to sit with their child to discuss some activities, whereas other children will be able to work through independently.

This book is designed so that children think independently and freely, without too much instruction or direction from adults and teachers.

Who Can Use This Book?

• Parents - to help their children learn to think at home, on long car/plane/travel trips, in cafes, out to dinner at a restaurant, waiting at the doctors surgery or wherever and whenever you please;
• Teachers, preschools and home schools - incorporated into class units, as extension and enrichment activities, for gifted and talented children, free time activities, activities to promote group discussions and sharing ideas. Tasks can be used to brainstorm ideas for a given project. Additional or optional homework tasks.
• Adults - some of these activities can be great "get to know you" and "ice breaker" tasks for seminars and workshops. They provide freedom to show individuality, values, personality and creative thought processes that enhance discussion points. Provide everyone or groups with the same task, then come together to show all the different outcomes. This can show the powers of brainstorming.
• Anyone interested in helping children learn to think.

What makes this book so unique?

• There is no set timeframe these activities need to be completed. Activities can be used as frequently as you and your child desires;
• All activities are open ended, there is no right or wrong answer to each task. Your child's imagination can go wild in whatever way they desire.
• No pressure or stress is associated with the activities, they are very relaxed where your child is free to think and explore their thoughts.
• Activities promote creative thinking and higher order thinking skills. Children are encouraged to think outside the square and make decisions for themselves to create unique and individual results.
• The activities are not designed to be completed in five seconds with lots of direction from an adult. They are designed to take as long as your child needs and wants to complete a task with independence and creativity. Once the child knows the task, it can take however long the child desires to achieve the wanted effect.
• The activities can be used over and over again with a different outcome resulting each time. Therefore, some people prefer to print and laminate the activities. Children can be given non-permanent markers to complete each task. When ready, wipe the laminated task clean so it is ready to start again another time, or give to a sibling or other child to try. This is also useful in a classroom setting where enrichment activities are required at different times.
• If you have multiple children completing the same task, coming together to view and discuss the different outcomes is a fantastic strategy for evaluation and appreciation of others' thoughts.
• Activities provide many opportunities for further discussion. This can extend and enrich learning further. Duscussions occur between parent/teacher/carer and child or if old enough, children can discuss in groups, as a class, in pairs or even individually to a group of people. This provides a wonderful opportunity to discuss values, morals and ethics with children, opening the lines of communication.

What Others Have had To Say:

Providing investigative activities enhances preschoolers' and childrens' cognitive abilities and begins the endless pursuit of academic excellence.

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