# Perspective-Shifting Task Cards: What's Missing? | Creative Thinking Activities | HPGE | Stages 2-3 **Price:** $2.75 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** year3, year4, year5, year6 **Subjects:** humanitiesAndSocialSciences, science, english ## Description (seller-submitted) What's Missing? | Building Thinking Task Cards | Inference & Reasoning Activities | Years 3–6. Help students become stronger thinkers by teaching them to look beyond what is given and identify what information is missing. These engaging What's Missing? Building Thinking Task Cards challenge students to analyse incomplete situations, identify gaps in information, and develop logical explanations using clues, evidence, and reasoning. Students investigate scenarios such as a student who suddenly stops participating in group work, a successful team that begins losing games, a mysterious note that says "Don't trust them," and a classroom terrarium where plants are unexpectedly wilting. Rather than jumping to conclusions, students learn to ask better questions, consider multiple possibilities, and justify their thinking. Why Teachers Love This Resource ✔ No prep – ready to print and use ✔ Encourages deep discussion and reasoning ✔ Develops inference and investigative thinking ✔ Open-ended tasks with multiple valid explanations ✔ Easy to use across multiple subjects ✔ Supports higher-order thinking skills What's Included 8 Building Thinking Task Cards Teacher Guide with implementation ideas Differentiation and extension suggestions Quick Start Script Student Response Sheet Student Self-Assessment Teacher Assessment Rubric Connection to the MindStretch Thinking Framework Skills Developed Students practice: Critical Thinking Foundational Reasoning Inference Evidence-Based Thinking Perspective Taking Identifying Missing Information Questioning Assumptions Justifying Conclusions How It Works Students analyse an incomplete scenario and ask: What information is missing? What clues do we already have? What assumptions are being made? What explanations are possible? What additional information would help? Students compare explanations, evaluate likelihood, and justify their reasoning using evidence from the scenario. Perfect For Stage 2 & Stage 3 Critical Thinking Lessons Inquiry … [truncated] --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6a347fd2-e177-428b-a7a4-6a8ac533ed85 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au