Showing Results for critical thinking

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.