Using Logic and Reasoning

 

This is an excellent activity for students paired in twos.

3 Sudoku Games for Kids

You can take these same three boards and use them for numbers 4-7, and so forth. You can also use them letters of the alphabet, upper and lower case.

 

5 Minute Science Lesson - Regal Tang Fish

1. From these three gifs, where do Regal tang fish live? How can you tell?

2. Do you think Regal tang fish would make good pets? Why or why not?

5 Minute Science Lesson - Dogs Drinking

What do you see the dog's tongue doing?
How does this different from the way your tongue works when you drink?

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Apps for Teachers Using iPads in Class

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Beach Balls

1. What do you see?

2. Where do you think this was taken?

3. How did the person take this picture?

4. Why do you think he took this picture?

5. Why is this picture interesting?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - bouncing balls

1. What do you see?

2. What do you think happened?

3. How many do you see? More than 100 or less than 100? Why do you think that?

4. Are they all the same size, or different sizes? Why do you think that?

5. When do you think they will stop?

6. Could something like this be dangerous? Why or why not?

7. Would you do something like this at home? Why or why not?

8. Name a reason why you could do something like this at home, and it be all right with your parents.

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - dice

1. What do you think these are?

2. How do you know?

3. Why are some of them red, some blue, and some white?

4. Would you like to play board games with these? Why or why not?

5. Why would someone make dice like these?

Think About It Thursday

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom

Sometimes I would take a picture I'd found on Tumblr or Pinterest, and flash it up on the screen for the children to see.

We'd discuss what they saw in the picture, with me guiding the questions as far into higher order thinking skills as possible.

(Ex: Why would the woman wear a veil and not a hat?

Why is she using a camel to carry her things and not a car?)

I would then have the children write one or two sentences describing what they see in the picture.

(Photo: Afghan kuchi woman - Pashtun nomads of Afghanistan)

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Unknown Art

1. How many different colors do you see?

2. What do you think this is a picture of?

3. Why do you think you can't see it clearly?

4. How would you fix this picture so you can see what it is?

5. If you could make your own picture like this one, what would you use? How would you do it?

Using Pinterest Pictues in the Classroom - Keys

1. Do you know what these are?

2. How many do you see?

3. How are they all alike?

4. How are they different?

5. Why do they have to be different?

6. What do you think these would help lock and unlock?

7. The long blue key on the right is called a skeleton key. Why do you think it's called that?

8. Why would someone collect these?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Fruit Peelings Rainbow

1. What does this look like to you?

2. What do you think this is made of?

3. Can you name the different fruits making up this rainbow?
(Answer from bottom to top: lime, lemon, orange, pomegranate, grapefruit)

4. Is this rainbow like the rainbows we see after it rains? Why or why not? How is it different?

5. Which colors are the same as a real rainbow? Which ones are missing?

6. How many sections do you see? How many sections are in a real rainbow? Which one has more/less?

7. Why do you think someone made this fruit rainbow?

8. This rainbow is 3 dimensional. What do you think that means?

9. If you could make your own 3D rainbow, what could you use?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Giraffes

1. What is the first thing you notice about this picture?

2. What is the second thing?

3. Name something else about this photo that is different.

4. Would you say this picture is a real photograph of giraffes? Why or why not?

5. Do you think the person who took this picture put the sunglasses on the giraffes?

6. Would real giraffes wear sunglasses? Why or why not?

7. Why would someone want to put sunglasses on a giraffe?

8. What do you think the giraffes are thinking while their picture is being taken?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Balls

1. What do these look like to you?
2. What else could they be?
3. If they were larger than your hand, what could they be?
4. If they were smaller than a penny, what could they be?
5. What do you notice about their shape?
6. How do you think they would feel?
7. What can you tell me about how they are arranged in this picture?
8. Where do you think you would be able to find them?
9. Guess how many are in this picture without actually counting them.

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Squirrel

1. Do you know what this is?

2. What is it doing?

3. What makes you think it's doing that?

4. Why do you think it's doing that?

5. Where do you think this picture was taken? Why there?

6. Pretend this squirrel can talk. What do you think it would say?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Licorice

1. Does anyone want to guess what these are?
2. What do you notice about them? Can you describe them? How big or small do you think they are?
3. What do you think you would do with something that looks like this?
4. Do you notice anything about they way they are laid out?
(A: shades of a rainbow)
5. How do you think these would feel if you touched them?
6. How do you think these are made? What do you think these are made of?
7. Where do you think you could find these?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Snails

1. Can you tell what is in this picture?
2. What does it look like the snails are doing?
3. Why do you think one snail is larger than the other?
4. What time of the year is it? Why do you think that?
5. Why do you think the photographer took this picture?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Dice

* What is the first thing you notice about these dice?
* Why do you think they were made like this?
* Do you think each die looks the same? Or do you think they're all different? Why?
(Note how 3 is depicted on the first die on the left, and the last die on the right.)
* If you turned the dice upside down, what would happen to the dots?
* Do you like the way the dots are pictured on these dice? Why or why not?
* Compare these to a regular die. What do you notice is the biggest difference?
(Note that one side is totally blank on these dice, as compared to regular dice.)
* Taking in the fact that one side of these dice is completely blank, and all dice have 6 sides, what do you think would be the highest number of dots on one side? (They may say 5, then point out the die on the far right has 6 dots on a side.)
* Why would dice have a blank side?

Using Pinterest Pictures in the Classroom - Sea Urchin Shells

* What do you think they are?
* How many do you see?
* Where do you think they came from?
* What can you tell me about their shape?
* Are they all exactly the same? Why or why not?
* If you were to put them in different categories (or piles), how would you separate them?
* How would you describe what they looked like to someone who hasn't seen this picture?
* Why do you think someone took a picture of them?
* If I were to give you one, what would you do with it?