Primary (K-3)

Critical Challenges for Primary Students (Revised Edition)

This expanded collection of 20 detailed lesson plans inviting kindergarten to grade 3 children to think critically about a range of topics drawn from Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. The teaching activities are organized around five themes:community/environment, moral dilemmas, teaching and learning from others, human nature, and family. The resource features such challenges as:

• designing a community;
• learning to ask powerful questions;
• making a lasting contribution to someone in the community; and
• solving a schoolyard problem.

This new edition has been greatly expanded to include newly created assessment rubrics for every challenge in both collections, many more student activity sheets to scaffold their learning, and an enhanced focus on teaching the “tools” to think critically.

Download a sample critical challenge from Critical Challenges for Primary Students

ISBN 978-0-86491-284-8

Price: $27.95

This title is Ministry approved for use in the following subjects, grade levels and provinces. Links provide curricular connections where available:
Social Studies: K, 1, 2, 3 (Alberta)
Social Studies: 1, 2, 3 (Manitoba)