Respect! Responsibility! Integrity! Honesty! How do you develop these valued character traits?
- Hundreds of ready-to-use thinking questions on 16 Developing Character concepts including citizenship, leadership, patience, values and morals, courage and more.
- Questions are crafted to generate critical and creative thinking for character development.
- Includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.
- Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for engaging cooperative questioning and analytical thinking.
In this book of questions, you will find hundreds of questions, quotations, and dilemmas to explore and develop character. Use quotations by famous folks as a springboard for writing and discussing, such as the following by Anne Frank: “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Why is your character ultimately your own responsibility?” Use dilemmas to have students evaluate their own values and behaviors: “If someone doesn’t treat you with the respect you deserve, would you treat them with the respect they don’t deserve? Why or why not?” And have students examine their own traits and those of others with provocative questions such as: “Are there ever situations where it is best to say something you don’t believe?” Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided.
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Light the fires of your students' minds with this series of question books. In each book you will find questions, questions, and more questions for 16 of the most popular themes and topics for that subject. But these are no ordinary questions. They are the important kind—higher-level thinking questions—the kind that stretch your students' minds; the kind that tap your students' natural curiosity about the world; the kind that rack your students' brains; the kind that sharpen your students' thinking skills. Inside you will find a seemingly endless array of intriguing, mind-stretching questions and activities. Each book is spilling over with questions designed to engage and develop the spectrum of higher-level thinking skills. Add an invaluable higher-level thinking component to what you already teach. Make learning exciting, more engaging, and more effective. You can almost see your students' brains growing as they discuss these questions, share their thinking journal entries, and ask and answer their own higher-level thinking questions. Use these books to easily integrate critical and creative thinking skills into your daily lessons. Give your students the most valuable skills they can acquire—the desire to think, and the power to question.