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Creative Problem Solving Level 1

Fun, Engaging Activities to Stretch Imagination and Develop Better Analytical Skills

Grades: PreK-2

Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking

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Creative Problem Solving Level 1

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12201PBP

Description and Features

Teaches the process of independently creating a solution, requiring more than just knowledge and thinking.

Description and Features

Creative problem solving requires more than just knowledge and thinking. Creative problem solving is the process of independently creating a solution. Numerous studies, including ones from the US Department of Education, indicate that tomorrow's jobs will demand creative problem solving skills. Imagination is unlimited power. Someone who has a good imagination can create what does not yet exist.

This book provides educators with fun, highly engaging problems for students to practice creative problem solving. Students have to evaluate the problem to come up with a workable solution. If a student does not like to draw or cannot write, verbal explanations can be given. Verbal discussions can be a good classroom activity. There are no right or wrong solutions, but students should be able to rationally explain why their solution will work.

Product Details

Item#: 12201PBP
Author(s): Carla Fonseca
TOC: View Table of Contents
Subject: Critical Thinking
Type: Student Book
Media: Paperback Book
License: Reproducible
ISBN–13: 978-1-60144-957-3
Pages: 216, perforated

Awards

Tillywig Brain Child Award, 2019

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Perfect for young kids
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Apr 15, 2023
My 5 year old really loves this book. She thinks it's fun. I like it because it is making her think in a creative and open-ended way without me having to lead her on to the conclusion I want her to come to. The book encourages the kid to solve the problem somehow, any way the kid wants to solve it. She comes up with interesting solutions that I never would have come up with. Definitely a 5 star book. I have the print version but I may get the ebook version too so I can print the same pictures out multiple times so she can solve them different ways. I got the print book as part of a bundle offered for 1st grade. I'm very pleased it was included in the bundle.
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Great practice for kids to imagine more than one workable solution to everyday problems
5
Oct 9, 2020
This Creative Problem Solving book engages students in the beginning process of finding more than one workable solution to everyday problems. Using their imagination to create what does not exist yet is a very important life skill. It requires harnessing the power of one’s own inventiveness to see beyond! I have used The Critical Thinking Co™ in my home education for several years. I feel incorporating these types of workbooks is imperative to improving thinking skills in a variety of ways.
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Nov 6, 2019
This marvelously engaging workbook spurs creative problem-solving through an abundance of richly-imagined challenges that stimulate youngsters to think in new and different ways! Creative Problem Solving Level 1's powerful efficacy is due, in part, to its enormous entertainment value. The problems to be explored and solved play more like fun, fascinating puzzles than anything resembling work, a quality that pulls kids deeply into the process and keeps them coming back for more. The 200+ page book is divided into eleven chapters with playful titles indicative of the problems contained therein - The Creature Factory, Superheroes and Super Powers, Alien Designer, The Mind Ride, and seven others. Each chapter starts out with a detailed example that amply demonstrates the applicable technique for solving the problems that follow. Students quickly learn to adopt a "there are no right or wrong answers" mindset but are also prompted to articulate the rationale behind each of their solutions, an approach that serves to unfetter the imagination while keeping young minds grounded in finding genuine solutions to the problem at hand!
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