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Challenge students’ critical and lateral thinking skills with 24 task cards. Encourage creative yet plausible answers, use for sentence writing practice, or have students brainstorm in groups. Includes print and digital options, differentiation, and positive teacher feedback. Ideal for grades 3-6.
$3.19
Use these 24 creative thinking task cards to challenge your students’ critical thinking and lateral thinking skills! For best results, encourage students to come up with creative, yet plausible answers. You may also want to use these cards for sentence writing practice by requiring students to answer in complete and error-free sentences. Another option is to use the cards in groups and have students brainstorm answers verbally.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
✍️ PRINT:
DIGITAL:
DIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:
Great for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade!
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This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!
NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable.
Teacher Tip
Here’s what teachers are saying:
✏️ “We played this as a game in small groups. It was fun. Some were challenged by this type of thinking, so having other students to model thinking after helped.” -Kirsten S.
✏️ “I have a lot of students who need to think outside the box of more than 1 reason – very helpful for me to have the activity on hand!” -Myra C.
✏️ “These have been a hit with my groups that struggle with comprehension tasks. They enjoy sharing thoughts with peers resulting in some very interesting answers!” -Lynx
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About the Author
Rachel Lynette is a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. She has written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Children’s Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. This resource reflects more than a decade of professional writing experience.
Terms of Use
This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
If you want to share this resource with colleagues, please purchase additional licenses. Thank you for respecting these terms of use.
This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom
SKU: 189206
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| Grade Level | 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschool |
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Jacqueline W. –
My students liked this resource. Very engaging and promotes student ownership of their learning along with critical thinking and discussion. Good for small group instruction and center activities.
Sarah J. –
I use these cards with students when I have small chunks of time to fill. The kids love them. I am always surprised by their creative answers. Student responses lead to amusing and fun class disucssion.
Sarah J. –
I use these cards with students when I have small chunks of time to fill. The kids love them. I am always surprised by their creative answers. Student responses lead to amusing and fun class disucssion.
Lori B. –
I use this on Fridays to help engage students who are early finishers and help check off the gifted creative category for enrichment.
Pia E. –
This is a great warm up activity for my GATE students. We always enjoy all of these resources and the kids always ask if we can do more.
Pia E. –
This is a great warm up activity for my GATE students. We always enjoy all of these resources and the kids always ask if we can do more.
MYRA C. –
I have a lot of students who need to think outside the box of more than 1 reason – very helpful for me to have the activity on hand!
Kirsten Stockman –
We played this as a game in small groups. It was fun. Some were challenged by this type of thinking, so having other students to model thinking after helped.