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Critical Thinking Worksheets

Brain Teasers - A great way to stimulate thinking. Don't worry, they come complete with answer keys.
Compare and Contrast - Students examine differences and similarities in a variety situations.
Dictionary Practice Worksheets - Practice your dictionary skills.
Fact And Opinion - Students determine the validity of a body of work.
How Many Are There? - Fun activities for examining patterns.
Internet Search Worksheets - Fun Internet searches for students.
Logic Puzzle - Each scenario is thought provoking. Lots of brain power needed here.
Making Predictions - A good warm-up for inferences.
Mazes - Your run-of-the-mill start and finish mazes.
Name People That ...- Good creative thinking exercises.
Name Places That ...- Good creative thinking exercises.
Name Things That ...- Good creative thinking exercises.
Secret Code - Students answer riddles through secret codes.
Study Skills Worksheets - Great for test preparation.
Sorting and Classifying - Great for meeting national standards.
What Do You Remember? - A visual memory activity.

Activities That Improve Student Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is perhaps the most important skill we need. It is paramount not just for job success but also for making the best decisions in crucial life matters.

As an educator, you should explain to your students that almost all our mistakes can be attributed to a lack of critical thinking. You can pick just about any big blunder you made in the past. You will invariably find that it transpired because of a failure to think critically.

Remember, the best thing you can do as a teacher is to inculcate a strong sense of critical thinking in your students.

Here are the activities that will help students to develop critical thinking.

Discuss Cognitive Biases

There are myriad cognitive biases.

The fact of the matter is we succumb to these biases at some point in our lives. Hence, it pays to study these biases.

You can pick those biases you think are the most detrimental and insidious. You should then explain them to your students to learn to identify and avoid these biases.

Perhaps the most dangerous bias by far is the Optimism bias. It may sound rather innocuous because of the word ‘optimism’. However, it is far more sinister in reality.

Optimism bias tends to think that bad things won't happen to us - they will happen to others only. For example, many think they won't suffer a fatal car crash. Hence, some get involved in overspeeding and texting while driving despite knowing their perils. No wonder these two reckless acts are the main reasons for fatal car crashes.

Writing About Biases

After elucidating various biases and providing simple examples to help them grasp these concepts, you can instruct your students to write about adverse events in their lives when they succumbed to these biases.

What did you learn? What were the consequences? These are further questions you can ask.

Talking about one’s mistakes is never easy. It is hard to concede that we are wrong at times. However, if we want to become better human beings and find success, we must learn from our mistakes. But the first step entails admitting one’s mistakes.

This will also instill humility and reduce overconfidence.

Avoiding Biases – The Easy Way

All biases and ensuring blunders are avoidable with one simple trick.

It just takes one word to get smarter – “why”. That is, you should question everything. As simple as that.

In particular, you should question all that you do and think.

Write it down first whenever you are about to take action or form an opinion about something. Then in front of it, just write “why?” You can then brainstorm and write for and against the idea in logical points.

If you make this a regular habit, you will avoid many mistakes and regrets. You will also maximize positive returns from your decisions.

Explain It to a 6-Year Old

This is something that can greatly benefit students in their academic endeavors.

We are inclined to think that we understand what has been just said. But just nodding along is not enough. You should be able to explain it to others.

The good news is that this goes far beyond altruism. In truth, it is self-empowerment. When you explain an abstruse concept to others, you bolster your own understanding of the same. Reiterating something embeds it more deeply into your long-term memory.

The social factor may also be beneficial and fruitful.

Do Your Research

Teach students to challenge common perceptions and conventional wisdom.

Explain carefully that this entails walking a fine line. You don't want to be dismissive, nor do you want to be naive. Instead, you should have an open mind and a willingness to do your research carefully.

Inform students about consulting reliable online sources. Explain that it is best to consider multiple authentic sources. Don't be satisfied with just the first entry in Google search results.

Here's how you can instill the importance of research in your students.

Instruct your students to research air pollution in the US. Those who do their research more meticulously will find that indoor air pollution is far deadlier than outdoor air pollution.

Tell them that they found out this key health fact courtesy of research. You can further instruct them to find ways of mitigating these risks.

Motivate your students to do research by telling them that they will be pleasantly surprised at the wealth of knowledge that they can uncover via dedicated research.

Beware of Disinformation

Disinformation is ubiquitous these days. It has become a weapon of choice for bad actors ranging from rogue states to unscrupulous individuals.

Critical thinking can help dispel misinformation and prevent you from becoming its victim.

You should help kids to detect and deal with weapons of mass distraction.

There was a time when fake news was disseminated largely via social media.

It is being spread by state-sponsored groups masquerading as legitimate media outlets on the internet. The scope and scale of these fake news campaigns are staggering to say the least.

One such fake news campaign involved no less than 750 fake sites posing as media outlets. Disinformation from this notorious racket reached millions around the globe and even found its way to UN and European Parliament meetings.

You can instruct kids in your class to do a project on internet disinformation, complete with case studies. You should also tell them to write about all possible ways to spot fakes and scams.

Bottom Line

Shown above are the activities to develop critical thinking in students.

You might agree that cultivating this key ability in your students is one of the best things you did for them.

Critical Thinking Worksheets

A Total Of 15

Connect The Dots

Count The Squares

Proving Your Belief

What You Learned

Choose A Prompt

Narrative Parallels

Real-Life Applications

Dissecting A Print Ad

A Philosophical Inquiry

Beyond The Surface

Simplify The Problem

Explain Your Reasoning

Looking For Fallacies

About these 15 worksheets.

Critical thinking is the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information, ideas, and arguments in a thoughtful and systematic manner. These worksheets provide exercises, questions, and prompts that encourage learners to engage in higher-order thinking and develop their abilities to assess, reason, and make well-informed decisions.

Critical thinking worksheets are like tools for your brain! They help you practice thinking in different ways and finding answers to tough questions. They are pages filled with fun activities and exercises that make your brain work a little harder. These worksheets help you learn how to think about things from different angles, ask questions, and find the best answers.

When you learn to think in different ways, school becomes more fun. You start seeing connections between things you learn, and you become a super thinker! It’s like being a detective, always searching for answers and clues.

Types of Exercises

Comparing and Contrasting

These exercises will have you look at two things and find out how they’re the same or different. For example, you might get pictures of a cat and a dog. You’ll write down how they are alike (like both have tails) and how they’re different (like dogs usually bark, and cats meow).

Cause and Effect

These activities make you think about what might happen because of something else. Imagine if you saw a picture of a melted ice cream cone on the sidewalk. The worksheet might ask, “Why did the ice cream melt?” You’d think about the reasons, like maybe it was a hot day.

These exercises will ask you to put things in order. Let’s say you get pictures showing a seed, a young plant, and a big tree. Your job would be to put them in the right order, from the seed growing up to the tree.

Predictions

With these, you’ll guess what might happen next. Maybe there’s a story about a boy who’s holding an umbrella while looking at dark clouds. The worksheet might ask, “What will he do next?” And you’d guess, “He’ll open the umbrella because it might rain.”

Problem and Solution

Here, you’ll read about a problem and think of ways to solve it. Like, if there’s a story about a girl who keeps losing her pencils, you might suggest she gets a pencil case.

Riddles are fun questions or puzzles that make you think hard. An example of a riddle is, “What comes down but never goes up?” The answer? Rain!

Grouping and Categorizing

In these activities, you’ll put things into groups based on how they’re alike. For example, you might get pictures of a car, a bicycle, a fish, and a boat. You’d group the car and bicycle together because they’re ways to travel on land. The fish and boat can be grouped as things related to water.

Making Connections

This helps you link what you already know to new things. If you read a story about a girl who’s sad because her balloon flew away, you might remember a time you felt sad and understand how she feels.

Ask Questions

Some worksheets will have a story or picture, and then you’ll come up with questions about it. Like, if there’s a picture of a forest, you might ask, “What animals live there?” or “Why are forests important?”

How to Help Foster Student Critical Thinking Skills

Improving critical thinking skills in students is a fundamental role of educators, as these skills equip students to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information in a reasoned manner. To begin with, teachers should cultivate a classroom environment that values questions over answers.

Encouraging students to ask “why” and “how” helps them delve deeper into topics and challenges their preconceived beliefs. Incorporating problem-based learning into the curriculum is another effective approach. By presenting students with real-world problems, they learn to apply their knowledge, analyze situations, and come up with solutions.

Regularly engaging students in debates or discussions on diverse topics can also sharpen their ability to think on their feet, consider different viewpoints, and defend their perspectives with evidence. Furthermore, teachers should emphasize the importance of reflection. After tasks or discussions, providing opportunities for students to reflect on their thinking process can foster self-awareness of their cognitive habits.

Assigning projects that require evaluating information from various sources also helps. In a digital age where misinformation is rampant, teaching students to discern credible from non-credible sources is crucial.

Promoting metacognition-thinking about one’s thinking—can be transformative. By making students conscious of their thought processes and guiding them in recognizing biases, assumptions, or logical fallacies, educators empower them to become more discerning and independent thinkers. In essence, fostering critical thinking is about providing students with tools to think clearly and rationally, equipping them for challenges both inside and outside the classroom.

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Critical thinking is making decisions about what to believe or do , which is reasonable and introspective. It is founded on fundamental intellectual principles, including relevance, soundness, accuracy, precision, consistency, depth, breadth, and justice.

See the fact file below for more information on Critical Thinking , or you can download our 28-page Critical Thinking worksheet pack to utilize within the classroom or home environment.

Key Facts & Information

Activities requiring critical thinking.

Assessing Online Media and Historical Sources. It is the practice of questioning the truthfulness of media to identify disinformation and misinformation.
Business Process Improvement. It is a practice in which leaders examine their business processes to find opportunities to increase accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Strategic Planning. It is a process where leaders develop their future vision and set their organization’s goals and objectives.
Root Cause Analysis. It is the process of identifying the underlying causes of issues to find suitable solutions.
Performance Management. It is the ongoing process of enhancing performance through setting individual and team goals that are in line with the organizational strategy.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A CRITICAL THINKER

Curious. One of the most important aspects of critical thinking is curiosity. According to research, our desire for knowledge propels us to constantly seek out new information. This curiosity fosters critical thinking since, in order to make wise decisions, we must constantly increase our knowledge.
Analytical . Analytical skills are necessary since research is a key element of critical thinking. Analytical thinking entails distilling complicated concepts into their most basic components.
Introspective. Critical thinking requires introspection since it makes us more self-aware. Self-awareness pushes us to confront our own prejudices, biases, and selfish impulses. If we know our assumptions, we can question them and suspend judgment until we have all the facts.
Making Inferences. It is making logical conclusions based on an examination of the facts, events, and ideas available. You can find relationships and base your decisions on what is likely to happen by analyzing the information that is available and noticing patterns and trends.
Observant. Using all five senses, observation is more than just looking; it also entails synthesizing, organizing, and categorizing data to create insight. Sharp observers pick up on the smallest detail and detect subtle changes in their surroundings.
Open-minded and Compassionate. Being open-minded entails giving other concepts and viewpoints a chance, even when they disagree with your own. This enables you to consider several perspectives on a subject without instinctively rejecting them. Likewise, even when they disagree, compassionate people can understand others. Finding common ground and understanding is possible when you comprehend the views of another individual.

LOGIC: CRITICAL THINKING

Logic is the study of inference, reasoning, and proof. Using logic, we can assess a line of reasoning or a thought to see if it is sound or not.
Propositions , often known as statements, serve as the foundation of a logical argument. A proposition is a statement that can either be true or false.
An argument is a connected set of statements that together form a logical, coherent, and defined proposition.
The premise identifies the reasons or pieces of evidence that support your claim. At this point, we create a new assertion based on one or more accepted statements of fact, which is the inference . Lastly, a statement that wraps up an argument is its conclusion . The validity of the premises statement and the inference statement confirm the validity or truth of the argument.

EXAMPLES OF A LOGICAL THOUGHT

Statement: Individuals under 18 years of age are not eligible to vote. Ryan cannot vote because he’s just 15 years old.
Premise 1: Individuals under 18 cannot vote.
Premise 2: Ryan is 15 years old.
Conclusion: Ryan is not eligible to vote.

CRITICAL THINKING BARRIERS

Egocentric thinking.

A natural tendency of people is to see everything in terms of oneself, which is known as egocentric thinking – “ego” meaning self, and “centric” meaning at the center. This way of thinking makes it difficult to understand other people’s viewpoints or examine and weigh other points of view.
This can produce poor decision-making behaviors. In order to break the cycle, people must take a position against the group and contest prevailing ideas.

DRONE MENTALITY

This refers to a lack of awareness of your immediate surroundings. Daily routines can prevent or contribute to the loss of critical thinking skills and frequently result in a drone mindset.

SOCIAL CONDITIONING

Unwanted preconceptions and stereotypes bring it on. It does this by obstructing our ability to see that we are even developing assumptions and imposing stereotypes.

BIASED THINKING

Personal biases can make it difficult to think critically because they make it difficult to be impartial, curious, and open-minded.

SCHEDULE PRESSURES

Integrating learning opportunities that encourage critical thinking skills is sometimes hampered by time restraints.

ARROGANCE AND INTOLERANCE

With a narrow perspective, it is quite difficult to come up with the appropriate solution to a problem. People who lack critical thinking abilities frequently respond to situations carelessly and foolishly.

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

The process of locating the underlying causes of problems in order to choose the best solutions is known as root cause analysis (RCA). RCA bases its premise on the idea that systematic prevention and root-cause analysis yield superior results than spot-treating symptoms and “putting out fires”.
Benefits and Goals. Finding the underlying cause of a problem or incident is the first objective of root cause analysis. The second objective is to completely comprehend how to address, make up for, or take advantage of any underlying problems inside the root cause. The final objective is to use the knowledge gained from this research to duplicate or systematically prevent past problems.

BASIC TYPES OF CAUSES

Physical Causes. These are tangible, material things that failed in some way, like a machine failing to function as expected.
People Causes. People either made a mistake or failed to take the necessary action. Usually, physical causes result from human causes (for example, no one filled the machine with engine oil, which led to its malfunction).
Organizational Causes. A broken system, procedure, or policy affects how people make decisions or carry out their daily tasks (for example, no one person was responsible for machine maintenance, and everyone assumed someone else had filled the engine oil).

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS PROCESS

Step 1: Define The Problem. Define the issue you are dealing with, then collect the information and proof you need to understand the situation at hand. Make a problem statement that includes details about the issue, such as the impact that the issue has already had or could have, its focal point, etc.
Step 2: Data Collection. The collection of key information about an incident or a problematic event is a critical step in root cause analysis. You can find the answers to questions like “What are the contributing factors?” by recording all the details and characteristics of the incident. Also ask questions like “When did the issue start?” “Is it a recurring occurrence?” “What effect has been noticed?” etc.
Step 3: Determine Potential Causal Factors. Find as many causal factors as you can at this point. It’s all too common for people to name one or two variables before stopping, but that’s often insufficient. When using RCA, you should look beyond the visible reasons and treat the underlying issues as well.
Step 4: Identify the Root Cause. You can pinpoint as many causes as you can. Use the methods like the 5 Whys, Fishbone analysis, or a Pareto chart to focus in on the main contributing elements and any potential underlying causes of the problem.
Step 5: Recommend and Implement Solutions. Analyze your cause-and-effect connection and determine which systems require adjustments. Planning ahead will help you anticipate the outcomes of your solution. In this manner, possible faults can be identified before they occur.

Critical Thinking Worksheets

This fantastic bundle includes everything you need to know about Critical Thinking across 28 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use worksheets that are perfect for teaching kids about Critical Thinking, which is making decisions about what to believe or do based on reasonable and introspective thinking.

Complete List of Included Worksheets

Below is a list of all the worksheets included in this document.

Critical Thinking Facts
What’s Stopping You?
Life is Full of Premises
Fact or Opinion
Rebus Puzzle
Think It Right
Connect Me if You Can
RCA Process
5 Whys: Part 1
5 Whys: Part 2
Under the Microscope

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Fun activities for developing critical thinking skills in preschoolers

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Problem-solving and critical thinking are important skills children in preschool need to develop in order to succeed in school.

Include these critical thinking preschool worksheets in your curriculum to give them enough opportunities for practice.

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Critical thinking activities preschool kids need.

Critical thinking preschool worksheets

Whether you are taking a walk outside or reading a book together with your child, there are always opportunities to practice critical thinking.

For instance, encourage your child to look for repeating patterns, for similarities and differences between objects and so on. The more they understand the world around them the better they will be able to generalize and utilize the knowledge in more complex situations.

To provide you with some pen and paper exercises, I’ve created these critical thinking preschool worksheets.

Preschool thinking skills printable worksheets. #preschool #prek

Feel free to use them in the classroom or at home.

And make sure to expand on your child’s answers. Ask her more about each group of pictures, why they belong/don’t belong together, and so forth.

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Hey Kristina, thanks. My 5 years old found it really interesting. Do you have more?

Not the same kind of activities. But it’s a good idea to create more like these, I will add them to my to-do list!

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Can I use this for company training? Is there a purchase/copyright.

Hi, Dale: You will need to contact the Global Digital Citizen Foundation to request permission to use this resource.

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Where is the actual critical aspect of the “thinking”? I would want to see, “What are the premises of the argument? Are they actually true? What evidence supports it and contradicts it? What other explanations might cause that result? What would be the result of the intervention? Does the proposed intervention actually address the problem identified? Is the problem identified the right problem?”

Thank you, PaulR! The fact that these basic rhetorical questions are missing from this infographic illustrates what is wrong with our current methods of “debate” on issues from climate change to healthcare.

Great post. Thanks

Excellent. Useful for the classroom.

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Critical thinking puzzles for adults (with answers)

Critical thinking can help to better navigate the information-dense and complex world we live in. By thinking critically we can better identify priorities, take a sensible approach to problem-solving and reach conclusions logically in line with evidence. Puzzles are an excellent way both to learn and practice critical thinking skills.

If you’d like to learn more about critical thinking or simply practice your skills with some puzzles, then this is the article for you. Read a little bit more about critical thinking skills and how to apply them first, or just skip straight to the puzzles and see how you get on.

What is critical thinking?

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– application of all the skills and competences above in order to come to a rational conclusion.

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Answer: All of these words begin with a vowel. This type of puzzle may send your mind off in the wrong direction, thinking about the objects or concepts described by the words, and the properties they might share. In fact, the solution lies in a far more simple consideration of the alphabet. Puzzle 1 is a simple example of a common type of letter or word puzzle.

Puzzle 2 – Commonalities and differences

What do the following items have in common and which is the odd one out?

Puzzle 3 – Falling on his feet

A man who lives in a high-rise building decides to exit through the window one morning rather than using the door. Somehow he survives the fall without a scratch and walks away to work. How did this happen?

Puzzle 4 – Walk this way

A group of five people enter a windowless meeting room together. An hour later when the meeting ends, four walk out of the door, leaving the room empty. What has happened to the fifth member of the group?

Puzzle 5 – Shapes and symbols

When lying on my side, I am everything, but when cut in half, I am nothing. What am I?

Puzzle 6 – Three hard options

The hero is escaping the lair of an evil super-villain and is faced with three possible exits:

Puzzle 7 – The bus driver’s eyes

At the fourth stop, two people get off the bus and one gets on. The bus is traveling at an average speed of 30mph and its tires are new. What color are the bus driver’s eyes?

Puzzle 8 – Losing weight

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We hope you’ve enjoyed our critical thinking puzzles for adults and that your critical thinking skills are feeling refreshed and sharpened after reading our article. Whether at school, in the workplace, or in general life, critical thinking can be a valuable tool for success and anyone can learn to use it.

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