Skill Sharpeners: STEAM is where creativity meets academics. Each unit includes a fun hands-on STEAM project that encourages children to enjoy the journey of creating and sharing his or her solution to help create a better world.

Skill Sharpeners: STEAM activity books for preschool are organized around 9 real-world topics related to the environment, the Earth, people and cultures, and social and emotional learning. Topics include themes such as:

Germs STEAM task: Create a hand-washing song that is 20 seconds long.

Helping Others STEAM task: Make a plan to help people and animals in your community.

Sun Safety STEAM task: Build something to give shade to your toys.

Bullies STEAM task: Write a story and do a puppet show about how bullies hurt others.

Bees STEAM task: Make a bee nest box to help give bees a safe home.

Each unit includes a grade-appropriate story or nonfiction reading article, a STEAM task to solve, and activities that provide an integrated approach to learning:

Science: important concepts and vocabulary related to the unit’s theme

Technology: models about how technology is applied in the real world

Engineering: examples of engineering solutions in the world

Art: creative solutions through art projects

Math: math operations to figure out solutions

Plus, each title includes a:

Career spotlight that highlights specific careers related to the topic

Supply list for each STEAM task

Bonus STEAM puzzle

Certificate of completion

Parent guide with teaching tips

Answer key

Skill Sharpeners: STEAM creates entertaining and fun activities that get children thinking and learning without even realizing it.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! Skill Sharpeners: STEAM Teaching Guides include:

How to Use directions for approaching STEAM education

Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities

Teaching suggestions with STEAM rubric and graphic organizers

Extension activities that include literature suggestions, virtual field trips, and discussion guides to deepen children’s connections and understanding

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The 100+ Activities are organized around these 1st Grade themes:

• Animals: Cats and Dogs; Giraffes and Elephants
• Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes and Trains
• Plants: Trees and Flowers; Fruits and Vegetables
• Places: The Playground and the Beach; Home and School

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Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking is the ultimate problem-solving kindergarten activity book, providing over 100 creative critical thinking cross-curriculum exercises. All the activities center on popular kindergarten curriculum themes like animals, transportation, plants and places.
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Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking gets kindergarteners problem solving outside the box in math, science, social studies and language arts. The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:

– Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges

– Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities

– Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these kindergarten themes:

– Animals: Cats and Dogs; Insects

– Transportation: Bikes, Trikes, and Wagons; Cars, Trucks, and Buses

– Plants: Flowers; Trees

– Places: Oceans and Deserts; Mountains and Plains

Kindergarten activities include tracing, counting, dot-to-dot, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:

– Analyze

– Solve

– Identify

– Differentiate

– Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Teaching Guides include:

– How to Use directions for teaching critical thinking skills

– Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities

– Teaching suggestions for learning to problem solve

– Extension activities that include journals, behavioral verbs, and additional discussion topics

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Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practice.

The variety of fun and creative activities in Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:

• Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges

• Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities

• Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these 6th grade themes:

• Animal Kingdom: Predators; Prey

• Time: Looking Back; Looking Forward

• Technology: Solutions; What’s Possible?

• Places: At Home; Around Town

Grade 6 activities include word games, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:

• Solve

• Conclude

• Compute

• Produce

• Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Teaching Guides include:

• How to Use directions for teaching critical thinking skills

• Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities

• Teaching suggestions for learning to problem solve

• Extension activities that include journals, behavioral verbs, and additional discussion topics

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The variety of fun and creative activities in Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:

– Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges

– Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities

– Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these 4th grade themes:

– Animals: Wild Cats; Ocean Animals

– Natural Forces: Rain, Snow, and Sun; Storms, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

– Transportation: Walking and Riding; Wheels and Wings

– Places: At School and at the Library; The Supermarket and the Restaurant

Grade 4 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and word games that involve critical thinking skills such as:

– Analyze

– Infer

– Visualize

– Solve

– Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Teaching Guides include:

– How to Use directions for teaching critical thinking skills

– Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities

– Teaching suggestions for learning to problem solve

– Extension activities that include journals, behavioral verbs, and additional discussion topics

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Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:

– Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges

– Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities

– Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these 3rd grade themes:

– Animals: Monkeys; Bees

– Things: Things We Use; Things We Like

– Places: At Home; At School

– Our World: Mother Nature; Earth Needs Plants

Grade 3 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:

– Analyze

– Solve

– Determine

– Infer

– Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Teaching Guides include:

– How to Use directions for teaching critical thinking skills

– Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities

– Teaching suggestions for learning to problem solve

– Extension activities that include journals, behavioral verbs, and additional discussion topics

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