Students will be able to independently use their learning to apply critical, creative, and logical thinking to different situations and problems.
● Thinking critically improves my life. ● Creative thinking encourages fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. ● Creativity can be learned. ● Scientific thinking leads to scientific understanding.
● What kind of thinking helps me solve problems? (critical, creative, logical, scientific)
● How can I apply these thinking skills to new situations?
● How will these thinking skills help me in the future?
This unit is designed to introduce kindergarten PACE students to the PACE environment. Students will be introduced to different ways of thinking through analogies, and book activities that will enable them to make connections and apply their thinking skills. Logical skills such as deduction, comparing, ordering, and drawing conclusions will be introduced through different types of logic problems and science experiments.