1. Nature
of
Critical and Creative Thinking

2. Emergent Learners
Manifest high cognitive skills
( both critical and creative skills)
Very inquisitive of many things
around them.
Very creative in finding answers
to their queries.

3. • Usually :
–Hypothesize
–Experiment
–Feed their curiosity while playing
–Running around the house/ outside
–Observing and imitating actions
–Listening and participating to adult
conversation
–Emulating actions and speech
–Browsing and scrutinizing pictures and
books

4. Roles of Adults
Adults should entertain
and process children’s
inquiries.

5. Adult should be able to
identify the children’s quest
for information.

7. Creative and Critical
Thinking are considered
higher order thinking
skills.
Guided play during
formal learning
help develop in
becoming critical
and creative
thinkers.
Critical and
creative thinking
develop during
their free play.
Discover many
things naturally.
Search , compare,
analyze, clarify,
evaluate and
conclude during
play.

8. Hypothesizing
Organizing
Operating
Testing
Searching
Scrutinizing
Solving
Synthesizing
HOTS of a Critical and Creative
Learner

9. • Childrenwho are criticalthinkers
scrutinizetheir ideas andassess their
reasons, solve problems, askand accept
questions, gainknowledge from their
queries,justify theirpoint and therefore,
gain confidenceas kids and as learners.

10. • Children who are critical thinkers ask
questions which elicit extensive thought and
provoke analysis from literate adults and must
be answered extensively and analytically.

11. • Children who are critical thinkers search for
truth and facts, explain through examples and
analogies, seek information from authorities
or literate adults, from causal relationship and
common knowledge, and relate t their
personal experiences.

12. • Children who are critical thinkers examine
solutions to their problems or examine
information to their inquiries.
• Children who are creative thinkers generate
possible solutions to their problems or find or
have their own creative ways to answer their
questions.

13. • Children who are both critical and creative
thinkers are good in problem solving which
they use during play and study.

14. Barriers to Critical and Creative Thinking
• Barriers can serve as reference in designing
activities and in providing opportunities to
develop young learners to become critical and
creative thinkers.
• Children who are not expose to challenging
activities which pose challenging questions
may not successfully develop their critical and
creative thinking skills.

15. • Children are not developed as critical and
creative thinking learners because they
are made comfortable with simple
answers and are confine to easy
activities.
• They do not try other learning strategies
instead they stick to their own belief and
are conditioned to resist change or adopt
other learning styles.

17. Critical Thinking
and
Creative Thinking

18. Logic Puzzles
•Logic puzzles require
deductive reasoning or the
process of elimination. They
also hone critical-thinking
skills, because you must
concentrate on the details of the
puzzle.

19. What does this say? esgg sgeg gegs gsge
What is as big as an elephant but weighs
nothing?
What can you break without touching it?

20. •What goes up but never comes down?
•The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man
who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it
doesn't know it. What is it?

21. •What starts with a P and ends with an E and has
a thousand letters in it?
•What is greater than God, more evil than the
devil, the poor have it, the rich need it and if you
eat it you'll die?

22. •What does this mean?
N
A
E
L
C

23. •What has rivers but no water, forests but no
trees, and cities but no people?
•What can be opened but can't be closed?
•You buy it to eat, but you don't eat it. What is it?

24. •You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full
of people yet there isn't a single person on
board. How is that possible?
•Why is it illegal to bury a man living in South
Carolina in North Carolina?

25. •What question can never be answered yes?
•Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was
the highest mountain in the world?
•How many of each kind of animal did Moses
take on the ark?

26. •A rooster lays on egg on the top of the roof.
Which way does it roll?
•What does this say? R/e/a/d/i/n/g/
•What does this say? MEREPEAT
•What does this say? NOON GOOD

27. What does this say?
N
E
V
E
S

28. •What does this say?
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE

29. What does this say?
I'm A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z

30. Scramble eggs

31. shadow

32. A promise

33. age

34. A Coffin

35. Post office

36. nothing

37. Clean Up

38. A map

39. An egg

40. Plate

41. All the
people on
the boat are
married.

42. It is illegal to bury a person
while they are still living.

44. Mount Everest

45. Moses? I thought
it was Noah!

46. Roosters don't
lay eggs.

47. Reading between
the lines

48. Repeat
after me

49. Good
Afternoon

50. seven up

51. Forgive

52. I’m
missing u

53. You are
intelligent
fella!