Teaching Our Children to Think

Teaching Our Children to Think provides valuable techniques for teaching students how to learn the thinking skills they need to move from simply memorizing content to making meaningful connections with what they learn. The over 200 exercises in this resource are designed to develop many of the core thinking processes that have been identified be educators as essential critical thinking skills, including questioning, classifying, inferring, and predicting. Students will learn how to improve their mental organization, analytical thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking. This resource includes two pretests, a special section with exercises to help students apply their thinking skills to new content, and an appendix section with possible answers and an outline of helpful strategies for the core thinking processes. Exercises modeled after the exercises in this book can be given to students in a weekly lesson as part of a social studies or self-development course. This book could form the basis of a separate short course aimed at developing thinking process, or it could be a library resource for students who seek a mental challenge. It is a book for students who may no longer be challenged by the usual correct answers or questions that test memory.