Critical Thinking Mind Explosion

Do you enjoy solving puzzles and problems? Would you like to become better at using critical thinking skills to help you solve more challenging problems? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this is the perfect class for you! Here at Wild and Unstructured Learning we believe that the skill of critical thinking is an important life skill. It is one that needs to be explicitly taught. Critical thinking allows use to think beyond the obvious. It is is a tool that aids us in making informed, rational decisions. A child with a critical thinking mindset is able to question, interlink information and ideas, make rational choices, and, most importantly, justify their own decisions. In this class, we are going to exercise our brains and learn different ways to think critically about various different problems. Your mind will explore with critical thinking knowledge after taking this class with us!

Here is a list of the topics for each week:

Week of September 2nd- Drawing to Explain our thoughts
Week of September 9th- Classification and Sorting Activities
Week of September 16th- Real World Problems Role Play
Week of September 23rd- Guessing Games
Week of September 30th- Real vs. Fake News
Week of October 7th- Solving Riddles
Week of October 14th- Critical Design Challenge
Week of October 21st- Then vs. Now: What do we use now that replaces things in the past? Why do we replace them?
Week of October 28th- Desert Island Survival 
Week of November 4th- Making Logical Inferences
Week of November 11th- How can we fix a problem in our community?
Week of November 18th- Brain Teasers
Week of November 25th- NO CLASS Fall Break
Week of December 2nd- Analogies
Week of December 9th- The Answer Is… Activity
Week of December 16th- Inventions That Changed the World Discussion
Week of December 23rd- NO CLASS Winter Break
Week of December 30th- NO CLASS Winter Break
Week of January 6th- Multiple-Choice Questions: Not the answer 
Week of January 13th- Debating a Topic
Week of January 20th- Make a Menu
Week of January 27th- Spot the Fake
Week of February 3rd- Puzzles
Week of February 10th- Create a new ending to a story
Week of February 17th- Drawing to Explain our thoughts
Week of February 24th- Classification and Sorting Activities
Week of March 3rd- Real World Problems Role Play
Week of March 10th- Guessing Games
Week of March 17th- Real vs. Fake News
Week of March 24th- Solving Riddles
Week of March 31st- Critical Design Challenge
Week of April 7th- Then vs. Now: What do we use now that replaces things in the past? Why do we replace them?
Week of April 14th- Desert Island Survival 
Week of April 21st- Making Logical Inferences
Week of April 28th- How can we fix a problem in our community?
Week of May 5th- Brain Teasers
Week of May 12th- Analogies
Week of May 19th- The Answer Is… Activity
Week of May 26th- Inventions That Changed the World Discussion
Week of June 2nd- Multiple-Choice Questions: Not the answer 
Week of June 9th- Debating a Topic
Week of June 16th- Make a Menu
Week of June 23rd- Spot the Fake
Week of June 30th- Puzzles
Week of July 7th- Create a new ending to a story
Week of July 14th- Drawing to Explain our thoughts
Week of July 21st-  Real World Problems Role Play 
Week of July 28th- Critical Design Challenge
Week of August 4th- Solving Riddles
Week of August 11th- Making Logical Inferences
Week of August 18th- How can we fix a problem in our community?