Let’s Think! is series of three books that encourages children at all levels of the primary school to think of new ideas and ways of doing things, to think outside the box, to look at the world they live in through new eyes, and to ask Why? or Why Not? Each book focuses on developing different thinking skills, (e.g., questioning, reasoning, problem-solving), but the activities across the series link together so that teachers can plan entire lessons or units by using activities from all three books.
The Let’s Think! series of books:
- Is an effective tool in teaching thinking skills in a mainstream classroom programme or as part of a thinking skills programme
- Contains activities that cover a range of thinking skill topics, including fluency, flexibility, originality, problem-solving, visualisation, questioning, reasoning, attribute listing, decision-making and analytical thinking
- Provides easy-to-use reproducible activities for each level of the primary school
- Recognises the importance of the four learning styles (visual, auditory, tactual and kinaesthetic) and so contains activities that meet the learning needs of these different styles
Let’s Think: Warm-Up Activities to Stimulate the Brain
- Section One: A General Warm-up
- Section Two: Comparing and Contrasting
- Section Three: Alternative Viewpoints
- Section Four: Decision-making and Reasoning
- Section Five: Literacy
- Section Six: Memory and Observation
- Section Seven: Touch and Movement
- Section Eight: Wind-ups
Let’s Think Creatively: Activities to Stimulate Creative Thought Processes
- Section One: Originality (Design)
- Section One: Originality (Literacy)
- Section Three: Visualisation
- Section Four: Problem-solving
Let’s Think Critically: Activities to Stimulate Critical Thought Processes
- Section One: Decision-making, Reasoning, and Predicting
- Section Two: Attribute Listing and Comparing and Contrasting
- Section Three: Questioning Skills
- Section Four: Discerning Fact versus Opinion
- Section Five: Levels of Thinking
- Section Six: Reasoning
