Thinking Skills Task Cards for the Inquiry-based Classroom

Thinking skills are combined with reading, speaking, listening and drama! These printable & digital task cards are a terrific way to actively practise the sub-skills directly within the thinking skills of the IB PYP’S Approaches to Learning Skills The task cards can be used in a variety of ways that encourage the children to reflect and think positively of themselves and others in various scenarios that are easily relatable to them. They are asked to reflect on situations that require analysing, synthesising, categorising and evaluating, present doubt, possible antagonism, confidence issues and other difficulties. As you help the children with these thinking skills in a safe, familiar environment, it will greatly benefit them throughout school and particularly as they approach the IB PYP Exhibition. A great review activity! The digital version includes one full size task card to be used on-screen in your digital learning platform. It can be used as a collaborative group activity to discuss and share ideas, many with a fun presentation requiring acting. Differentiated for 3rd-5th grade. The orange cards offer more challenging text. UK and USA spelling.

Suggestions:

•Whole class - sitting in circle, each child will have a card to read aloud and then share their opinion. These can be discussed as you go around the circle.

•Small groups- Place a pile of cards face down in the middle of the group. Each person will take a turn to read a card, act out or offer their opinion and then those can be discussed within the group.

•Teacher led- read aloud a card to a small group and facilitate the discussion that follows.

•Independent work - Each child can work with a few cards and write or draw how they would solve the social problems presented on the task cards.

•Digital version- OPTIONS: one full size task card to be used on-screen in your digital learning platform. It can be used as a collaborative group activity to discuss and share ideas, many with a fun presentation requiring acting. You also have a slide with 4 task cards and a graphic organiser for recording ideas and thoughts. The children can switch back and forth between slide and graphic organiser to add their thinking and their ideas

You will find 19 full size task cards and 6 sets of 4, making 24 task cards all for online learning, and 32 PDF task cards ready to print and go for in-class learning. The graphic organisers can be used to record ideas and thinking.

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You can find many more tools for implementing the IB PYP within my store and on my blog.

Enjoy!

Susan Powers