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Hands-On Thinking Activities: Centers Through the Year
HandsOn Thinking Activities Centers Through the Year Author:Vanessa Bredthauer This book tells you everything you need to create a wide variety of activity centers that build critical thinking skills. Required materials are inexpensive and readily available. As students complete the tasks in each center, they will practice the skills of predicting, estimating, interpreting, sorting, classifying, organizing, designing, and ... more »following directions. Every center has complete teacher directions, reproducible student directions and record sheets, all necessary forms and patterns, and a center sign. There are several different centers to create for each season of the year. Centers can be set up as a series of individual activities done over a period of time during an appropriate season or as a "carnival," where students spend two to four hours on one day touring several season-related centers. Either way, from Jack-o'-Lantern Jamboree to Lima Bean Bingo, these hands-on centers will help students learn and have fun doing it. Plenty of fun illustrations highlight the presentation. All 160 pages perforated for easy removal.« less