By developing good thinking skills and applying their learning in education as well as real life, students can:
Become broad and adventurous thinkers
Generate innovative solutions
Use their reasoning skills to analyse and evaluate
Plan and think strategically
Help to take right and wise decisions in difficult situations of life
Boosts imagination and creativity
This workshop plan highlights the importance of thinking, benefit of developing thinking skills in the students, inculcating the habit of reading newspapers, solving puzzles etc which would probe thinking in everyday life and to make thinking skill activities interesting. The students would understand how scientists and explorers made amazing discoveries due to good thinking skills. Students would also derive fun by thinking like a scientist and an explorer through the series of activities.
The workshop is appropriate for age group: 6 to 10 years, i.e. from Class 1 to 5. The school/ educational institute can decide to conduct it for any one or more grades from Class 1 to 5.
The 60-minute workshop plan consists of different fun filled activities designed with the objective of enhancing thinking skills in students. This plan provides detailed guidelines to the trainer/ teacher who will conduct the workshop. All the necessary resources such as video/ PPT/ display resource/ handouts/ worksheets/ Parents’ Circular etc required to conduct the activities are attached with the plan.