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Thinking Quests: Extension and Enrichment Activities for Students
Do your students want “more of the story?" Do they want to delve deeper into the unit or lesson but you feel you must move on because of time constraints? Do you wish you could provide more adventurous learning opportunities for your entire class or maybe just a few students? Stop now! Thinking Quests carries gifted learners to new heights. The activities presented here encourage students to ask “What if . . .?”
Excite and engage your students with the thrill of discovery. Thinking Quests offers more than 60 exciting enrichment activities. In each activity, students are encouraged to discover the important concepts being taught through learning experiences that emphasize both creative and critical thinking.
Six major themes are offered, each containing 10 energizing activities. Themes include animals, flowering plants, bugs, sports and outdoor activities, parks and forests, and weather. Activities encourage a variety of thinking skills and open-ended responses. Your students will apply facts, organize data, classify, create, design, investigate, hypothesize, observe, and imagine.
The activities offer students a fun and challenging way to learn beyond the curriculum and develop powerful productive thinking skills. For example, in "Animal Antics," students identify animals by their unique characteristics, write jokes that incorporate these traits, and imagine what life would be like if they owned an elephant and had a neck like a giraffe. In "A New Ending," students change the facts and the events in the story of the Three Little Pigs and consider what would happen if the first pig built a brick house or if the wolf was friendly. Students are then encouraged to select a new story and predict new outcomes. In “Exploring Ecosystems,” students create a biosphere and keep track of their observations.
Grades 4-8
Excite and engage your students with the thrill of discovery. Thinking Quests offers more than 60 exciting enrichment activities. In each activity, students are encouraged to discover the important concepts being taught through learning experiences that emphasize both creative and critical thinking.
Six major themes are offered, each containing 10 energizing activities. Themes include animals, flowering plants, bugs, sports and outdoor activities, parks and forests, and weather. Activities encourage a variety of thinking skills and open-ended responses. Your students will apply facts, organize data, classify, create, design, investigate, hypothesize, observe, and imagine.
The activities offer students a fun and challenging way to learn beyond the curriculum and develop powerful productive thinking skills. For example, in "Animal Antics," students identify animals by their unique characteristics, write jokes that incorporate these traits, and imagine what life would be like if they owned an elephant and had a neck like a giraffe. In "A New Ending," students change the facts and the events in the story of the Three Little Pigs and consider what would happen if the first pig built a brick house or if the wolf was friendly. Students are then encouraged to select a new story and predict new outcomes. In “Exploring Ecosystems,” students create a biosphere and keep track of their observations.
Grades 4-8
64 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
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