81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities

81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590375269

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

Escape Book

Escape Book
Author: Arthur Tenor
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524870439

Solve strange puzzles and riddles with scary monsters in order to escape the book, in the third installment of The Escape Book series! Beware brave souls, you’re trapped! In the middle of a carnival, you discover a mysterious building and you're in for the fright of your life! Locked in this strange place inhabited by vampires, dancing ghosts, and even Frankenstein, you must now find a way to escape. Will you be able to solve the bizarre puzzles and rise to the challenge? It will take everything you’ve got to make it out safely. Bring the excitement of the popular escape room activity with you everywhere you go in this third book, Madam Mortell's Haunted House. You will need to keep your cool to free yourself because who knows what terrifying monsters you'll encounter along the way!

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780316581097

Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Escape Book

Escape Book
Author: Stéphane Anquetil
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 152486823X

Solve puzzles and riddles with your favorite pirates in order to escape the book, in the second installment of The Escape Book series! Ahoy matey, you’re trapped! After being abandoned on a mysterious island, you must now find a way to escape. The grumbling volcano in the middle of the island is sure to erupt soon—and take you with it. Will you be able to solve puzzles, find allies, and rise to the challenge? It will take everything you’ve got to make it out in time. But who knows, maybe you’ll find legendary treasure along the way? Bring the excitement of the popular escape room activity with you everywhere you go in this second book, The Mysterious Island. You will have to free yourself, and logic and observation will be your new treasures!

Jurassic Hero

Jurassic Hero
Author: AMEET Studio
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Amusement parks
ISBN: 9781338387438

A best-selling activity book with a minifigure, timed to tie in with LEGO® Jurassic World"!mini movies

The Planet of Terror

The Planet of Terror
Author: Patrick Burston
Publisher: Little Simon
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1986-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780671607173

The Kids' Book Of Mazes

The Kids' Book Of Mazes
Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Buster Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781780552484

Kids of all ages will love to lose themselves in this bumper book of mazes. With hundreds of twists and turns, the magical mazes get more fiendish with every turn of the page.

Ditch That Textbook

Ditch That Textbook
Author: Matt Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781946444257

Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.