Critical Thinking Daily Brain Busters | Enrichment Activities | Morning Work

Description

Are you looking for the BEST way to promote critical thinking in your upper elementary students? Want to enrich and extend your day, or even add morning work to your daily routine? If so, these Critical Thinking Brain Busters are the resource you need in your classroom! Help your students increase their logical reasoning in a way that’s so much fun!

** This resource includes 180 days’ worth of critical thinking activities to keep your students’ minds sharp and active all year long! **

Why you’ll love our Critical Thinking Daily Brain Busters:

• Comprehensive: 180 days of activities mean you’re covered for the whole school year!
• Flexible: Available in printable and digital formats.
• Open-Ended: No answer key needed—encourages discussion and deep thinking.
• Engaging: A wide variety of activities keeps students interested and motivated.

What’s included in this resource?

This resource comes in both printable and digital versions (Google Slides), making it easy to use in any classroom setting. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find inside:

• Daily Challenges: Fresh and exciting tasks to kickstart your students’ thinking each day
• Creative Writing: Prompts that get kids’ imaginations flowing
• Problem-Solving: Real-world scenarios that develop logical thinking
• Explain Why: Questions that encourage students to back up their answers with reasoning
• If You Could: Fun hypothetical questions that promote creative thinking
• Socially Speaking: Activities that build social skills and communication
• List It: Tasks that help students categorize and organize information
• Solve It: Challenges that boost problem-solving skills
• What’s the Difference?: Exercises that highlight similarities and differences
• Logical Reasoning: Puzzles to develop logical thinking
• Anagrams: Word puzzles that are both fun and challenging
• Quick Questions: Short, engaging exercises for quick thinking practice
• Math Minute: Math problems that promote critical thinking
• Why, Oh Why?: Deep questions that require thoughtful answers
• Make A Choice: Scenarios where students must make decisions and explain their reasoning
• What Am I?: Riddles and clues for identifying objects or concepts
• Odd One Out: Activities that involve finding the item that doesn’t belong
• Would You Rather: Fun questions that get students thinking and talking
• Brain Teasers: Puzzles to keep minds active
• Compare & Contrast: Exercises that develop comparison skills
• Wrong Rhymes: Fun activities identifying incorrect rhymes
• What If?: Imaginative scenarios to stimulate creative thinking
• Think About It: Prompts that require deep reflection
• Predict It: Tasks that involve making educated guesses
• Hypothetically Speaking: Scenarios that encourage creative exploration.
• Mismatched?: Activities identifying similarities between two seemingly mismatched words
• Finish It: Prompts that require students to complete stories or scenarios
• Describe It: Detailed description tasks
• Imagine It: Prompts to inspire imaginative thinking
• Short and Sweet: Quick exercises for instant critical thinking
• Awesome Analogies: Exercises that involve creating and understanding analogies

How can I use this resource?

• Enrichment
• Early Finishers
• Center Work (Great for Writing and Work Work Centers!)
• Morning Work
• Brain Breaks

…whatever you can dream up!