The ThinkUp! Critical Thinking Student Wheels for levels 1-3, 4-5, and 6-12 offer quick-and-easy access to critical thinking stems based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. They also provide other questioning stems and thinking signals to assist students in reflective thinking, creative thinking, and problem solving.
Side one of the wheels includes prompts designed around the six levels of Bloom’s and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT): Knowledge/Remember; Comprehension/Understand; Application/Apply; Analysis/Analyze; Synthesis/Create; and Evaluation/Evaluate.
Side two focuses on the 9 Traits of Critical Thinking: Adapt, Examine, Create, Communicate, Collaborate, Reflect, Strive, Link, and Inquire.
The Teacher Guide helps educators deepen the impact of the student use of the wheels in the classroom. The recommended guide features critical and creative thinking strategies and numerous activities to address Bloom’s Taxonomy, reflective thinking, problem solving, and the four behaviors of creative thinking.
