Staff Critical Thinking Activities

Promote a culture of kindness & inclusion with these 50 printable thought provoking discussion cards. Help your students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th & fifth grade develop empathy & compassion with this Social Emotional Learning (SEL) resource. Utilize them to stimulate critical thinking and foster engaging discussions. Print & laminate these conversation cards for versatile use in pairs, small groups or as a whole-class activity. Your students could even use the questions to create thinking maps, for creative writing tasks & journal writing. Ideal for Anti-Bullying Week & throughout the year. Open the door to powerful discussions that cultivate empathy, build understanding & foster a sense of community among your students.

Examples of Questions Include:

• What does the word empathy mean to you?
• Share a time when you felt truly understood by someone else.
• How do you think empathy can help prevent bullying?
• Can you think of a character from a book or movie who showed great empathy? Describe the situation.

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Let's face it, forming good cooperative learning teams can be a chore. Not anymore! To create effective teams, we must juggle a lot of variables. Writing everything out by hand on TONS of index cards is a hassle. Simply type in the template, print on cardstock, or just store in a google doc. BOOM, amazingness. Cooperative Learning at it's best.

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Critical thinking activity for small/whole that motivates students to take charge of their learning process. Encourages students to discuss their classroom learning successes as well as disasters. Activity will have students discussing learning processes and study skills. Student scenarios given and guided questions with handout chart included.