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Nature of

Critical and Creative Thinking

Emergent LearnersManifest high cognitive skills ( both critical and creative skills)

Very inquisitive of many things around them.

Very creative in finding answers to their queries.

• Usually : –Hypothesize–Experiment–Feed their curiosity while playing–Running around the house/ outside –Observing and imitating actions–Listening and participating to adult

conversation–Emulating actions and speech–Browsing and scrutinizing pictures and

books

Roles of Adults

Adults should entertain and process children’s

inquiries.

Adult should be able to identify the children’s quest

for information.

Should attend to the queries by providing the

exact, specific, appropriate and correct

information.

Creative and Critical Thinking are considered

higher order thinking skills.

Guided play during formal learning help develop in

becoming critical and creative

thinkers.

Critical and creative thinking develop during their free play.

Discover many things naturally.

Search , compare, analyze, clarify,

evaluate and conclude during

play.

Hypothesizing

Organizing Operating

Testing

SearchingScrutinizing

SolvingSynthesizing

HOTS of a Critical and Creative Learner

• Children who are critical thinkers scrutinize their ideas and assess their reasons, solve problems, ask and accept questions, gain knowledge from their queries, justify their point and therefore, gain confidence as kids and as learners.

• Children who are critical thinkers ask questions which elicit extensive thought and provoke analysis from literate adults and must be answered extensively and analytically.

• Children who are critical thinkers search for truth and facts, explain through examples and analogies, seek information from authorities or literate adults, from causal relationship and common knowledge, and relate t their personal experiences.

• Children who are critical thinkers examine solutions to their problems or examine information to their inquiries.

• Children who are creative thinkers generate possible solutions to their problems or find or have their own creative ways to answer their questions.

• Children who are both critical and creative thinkers are good in problem solving which they use during play and study.

Barriers to Critical and Creative Thinking

• Barriers can serve as reference in designing activities and in providing opportunities to develop young learners to become critical and creative thinkers.

• Children who are not expose to challenging activities which pose challenging questions may not successfully develop their critical and creative thinking skills.

• Children are not developed as critical and creative thinking learners because they are made comfortable with simple answers and are confine to easy activities.

• They do not try other learning strategies instead they stick to their own belief and are conditioned to resist change or adopt other learning styles.

ACTIVITY!!!!!

Critical Thinking

andCreative Thinking

Logic Puzzles

•Logic puzzles require deductive reasoning or the process of elimination. They also hone critical-thinking skills, because you must concentrate on the details of the puzzle.

What does this say? esgg sgeg gegs gsge

What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?

What can you break without touching it?

•What goes up but never comes down?

•The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

•What starts with a P and ends with an E and has a thousand letters in it?

•What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die?

•What does this mean?NAELC

•What has rivers but no water, forests but no trees, and cities but no people?

•What can be opened but can't be closed?

•You buy it to eat, but you don't eat it. What is it?

•You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn't a single person on board. How is that possible?

•Why is it illegal to bury a man living in South Carolina in North Carolina?

•What question can never be answered yes?

•Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

•How many of each kind of animal did Moses take on the ark?

•A rooster lays on egg on the top of the roof. Which way does it roll?

•What does this say? R/e/a/d/i/n/g/

•What does this say? MEREPEAT

•What does this say? NOON GOOD

What does this say? NEVES

•What does this say?GIVE GIVEGIVEGIVE

What does this say? I'm A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z

Scramble eggs

shadow

A promise

age

A Coffin

Post office

nothing

Clean Up

A map

An egg

Plate

All the people on the boat are married.

It is illegal to bury a person while they are still living.

Are you asleep?

Mount Everest

Moses? I thought it was Noah!

Roosters don't lay eggs.

Reading between the lines

Repeat after me

Good Afternoon

seven up

Forgive

I’m missing u

You are intelligent

fella!