Let's Get Thinking: Critical Thinking Outside the Box

Critical thinking is a set of skills and habits of mind, including the ability to define a problem, identify assumptions, analyze ideas, and reason critically, and then systematically list different possible causes, create plausible solutions, or evaluate its correctness using logical reasoning. It also includes the ability to make creative connections between ideas from different disciplines.

In this course, we will use our thinking hats to look at different scenarios in different ways. We will use a variety of teaching methods such as questioning to think outside the box. Each week has a different focus and aims to engage learners through discussion.

Here's the updated list with classes before the Week of 6/5/24 moved to the end of the list with new weekly dates in UK format starting on Mondays each week:

Week of 21/4/25 - Upside Down
Week of 28/4/25 - Intelligence: Learned or Inherited?
Week of 5/5/25 - Modern Medicine vs Traditional Medicine
Week of 12/5/25 - Time: What is it?
Week of 19/5/25 - How Was Language Created?
Week of 26/5/25 - Dinosaurs
Week of 2/6/25 - Fishing
Week of 9/6/25 - Sports
Week of 16/6/25 - What Would Happen If...
Week of 23/6/25 - Jokes
Week of 30/6/25 - Being Happy
Week of 7/7/25 - Being Invisible
Week of 14/7/25 - Zero Gravity
Week of 21/7/25 - No School
Week of 28/7/25 - Life Without Internet
Week of 4/8/25 - Types of Transport
Week of 11/8/25 - Ice Age
Week of 18/8/25 - A Healthy Body = A Healthy Mind
Week of 25/08/25 - The Justice System
Week of 01/09/25 - Time Travel
Week of 08/09/25 - Desert Island
Week of 15/09/25 - The Future
Week of 22/09/25 - Ageing Backwards
Week of 29/09/25 - The Universe
Week of 06/10/25 - Strange Things
Week of 13/10/25 - Society
Week of 20/10/25 - Will Robots Replace Us?
Week of 27/10/25 - Fashion
Week of 03/11/25 - Life of Chocolate

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!