The document provides instructions for practicing critical thinking skills with a partner by exploring paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learners are told to take turns asking and answering open-ended questions about what is happening in each painting, what occurred just before or just after the scene, and common elements among the paintings, with the goal of having a discussion and considering different perspectives.

1. Let’s Practice
Critical Thinking
We can practice critical
thinking by using open
ended questions and
working with a partner

2. With a partner take turns
answering the questions.
Remember there are no wrong
answers.

3. Let's first explore the
Metropolitan Museum of Art

4. What would it be like to have one
of your paintings displayed at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art?

5. What's going on in this painting?

6. What do you think happened
just before the action in the
painting?

7. What is going on in this
painting?

8. What do you see that makes
you say that?

9. What’s going on in this
painting?

10. What is at the end of the
pathway?

11. What’s going on in this
painting?

12. What will happen just after the
action in the painting?

13. What do all the painting
have in common?