Ready to take your students’ thinking to the next level?

These Critical Thinking Activities Volume 2 build on foundational skills and extend students into deeper, more complex thinking through engaging, open-ended challenges.

This resource includes 25 structured thinking tasks designed to develop critical thinking, problem solving, and creative thinking skills using a clear and powerful framework:

Think → Evaluate → Create

Students explore ideas in greater depth, evaluate more complex possibilities, and create thoughtful, reasoned responses with increasing independence.

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS RESOURCE

✔ No prep—just print or assign digitally

✔ Designed for deeper, more complex thinking

✔ Encourages reasoning, discussion, and multiple perspectives

✔ Open-ended tasks with no single correct answer

✔ Builds independence and confidence in thinking

Perfect for extending students who are ready to move beyond foundational thinking.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

✔ 25 Critical Thinking Activities (Volume 2)

✔ 5 Thinking Skill Types:

• What If? (Hypothetical Thinking)
• Design Challenges (Creative Problem Solving)
• Logic Challenges (Reasoning Skills)
• Perspective Shifts (Flexible Thinking)
• Problem Solving (Analytical Thinking)

✔ 75 scaffolded thinking prompts (3 per task)

✔ 25 extension challenges for deeper thinking

✔ Think → Evaluate → Create framework

✔ Student Thinking Pages

✔ Teacher instructions and implementation ideas

✔ Student self-assessment reflection page

✔ PDF (printable)

✔ Google Slides™ (digital + editable)

HOW THIS DIFFERS FROM VOLUME 1

Volume 1: Builds foundational thinking skills

Volume 2: Extends students into deeper, more complex thinking

✔ Less scaffolding

✔ Greater independence

✔ More complex reasoning and evaluation

✔ Deeper, more thoughtful responses

SKILLS DEVELOPED

Students will:

✔ Think critically and creatively at a deeper level

✔ Evaluate ideas with greater depth and justification

✔ Strengthen reasoning and analytical thinking

✔ Solve more complex problems

✔ Communicate ideas clearly and confidently

HOW TO USE

Use these activities flexibly in your classroom:

✔ Warm-ups or bell ringers

✔ Writing prompts

✔ Whole-class discussions

✔ Small group tasks

✔ Extension or enrichment activities

✔ Inquiry or project-based learning

✔ Assessment opportunities

PERFECT FOR

✔ Years 3–6

✔ Upper Primary

✔ Gifted and enrichment

✔ Fast finishers

✔ Students ready for deeper thinking challenges

START FROM THE BEGINNING

New to these activities?

Begin with Critical Thinking Activities Volume 1 – 25 Foundational Thinking Skills. Then move into Volume 2 to extend and deepen student thinking.

Bring Thinking to Life

These activities pair perfectly with our Thinking Scenarios, where students apply their skills in engaging, real-world challenges.

For quick daily practice, explore our Mini Thinking Tasks and Task Cards.

Build a complete thinking classroom with consistent practice + application.

TEACHER TIP

Encourage students to justify their thinking and consider multiple perspectives.

Focus on depth, reasoning, and explanation—not just answers.

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