Critical thinking in Kererū.

In Kererū we actually talked about what 'critical thinking' was. We decided to look up what 'Critical' meant and discovered that it meant judging something on it's truth or merit. So Critical thinking meant judging the thinking of others, pulling things appart and making our own conclusions. We did some activities out of the Critical Thinking Handbook. We started with a brain warm up activity called a Rebus. Have a look at this and see if you can work out what the picture puzzles are saying.

After our brains were warmed up we did an activity where we were 'Travel Guides' to a group of friendly aliens. The exercise forced us to look at who were were as individuals and as a society.

We did not expect to have such a discussion on such simple ideas. Trying to describe what a team was to a group of aliens was quite a difficult task. What would happen if humans could not play sport or games got us onto a trail that included ideas like, not getting rid of the stress of daily life, not practicing team building and problem solving etc.