Brain Games! Ready-to-Use Activities That Make Thinking Fun for Grades 6 - 12

Brain Games! Ready-to-Use Activities That Make Thinking Fun for Grades 6 - 12 by Jack Umstatter

Here's a unique collection of over 170 reproducible exercises that stimulate your child to think and reason more intelligently and critically!

The exercises are fun, can be used at any time for a variety of instructional purposes, and are perfect for large and small groups as well as independent work.

For your convenience, all of the Brain Games! activities are individually printed in a large spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying and are organized into seven sections covering a wide range of topics:

• Listening and Remembering — 18 activities to give students practice in following directions, memorizing, and listening more effectively, for example, "Stand and Deliver" and "Accidents Happen!"
• Across the Curriculum — A collection of 33 exciting exercises in a variety of content areas, including titles such as "Time Marches On," "A Stately Find," and "Which Science?"
• Language and Writing — 34 activities for building written and oral communication skills, including "Mrs. Malaprop Has Arrived," in which students correct mangled proverbs ("You are the apple of my pie").
• Logic and Reasoning — 20 unique thinking activities, for example, "Mixed Up Advertisements," " The Art of Organizing," and "Know us by our slogans".
• Math — 21 activities emphasizing fun and problem solving, such as "Number Stumpers" "A taxing situation" and "Math and the movies."
• The World Around You — 28 consumer and career-related activities to broaden students' experience, including exercises like "Countries, Capitals, and Currencies" "The Needed Product," and "Jobs...Jobs...Jobs".
• Me — 18 activities to help teens better understand themselves, their values, and their interest, for example, "If I were," "Your Personal Timeline," and "The Sounds and Messages of Music."

In short, Brain Games! is sure to benefit both you and your children, it gives you a ready store of stimulating activities that will build your childrens' knowledge and critical thinking skills as it sparks their sense of fun!

Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 272
• Book Size: 9" x 10-3/4"
• Book Type: Paperback
• Recommended Ages: 10 and up
• ISBN 10: 0876281250
• ISBN 13: 978-0876281253

An excellent teacher's guide book!

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This book gives you games to use with your kids to help them develop critical (and creative) thinking skills. Try one each day!