List of PDFs
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List (alphabetical order):
> 103 Ethical Dilemmas, Questions & What Ifs: An entire PDF devoted to one thing: scruples. Scenarios, little stories and topics will engage kids, teens and (yep) adults too. The content is designed to be challenging, thought-provoking and relatable.
> A Book of Questions: 99 hypothetical scenarios & timeless topics that will challenge kids + teens to think about society both philosophically and practically. No one is told how to think or what to think - instead they're encouraged to think critically and creatively.
> A Book of Questions - Workbook: This is a workbook version of A Book of Questions. It focuses on turning thinking into writing, essentially forcing the writer to clarify, order and strengthen their ideas.
> A Collection of Unusual Animals: A chance for kids/teens to stretch the quirky side of their imaginations along with their visual storytelling skills. Plus, each page provides an opportunity to practice short-form writing.
> Agree or Disagree?: 110 wide-ranging scenarios and questions to debate. Follow-up questions throughout will help further strengthen the ability to reason, persuade and build an argument. There is a ton to choose from in this PDF.
> Amazing Brain: 97 activity pages of fun, challenging & interesting content that works a full range of higher-order thinking skills.
> Can You Listicle?: 85 "listicles" that exercise critical, creative and lateral thinking skills as well as the ability to generate ideas. Putting ideas into words via short-form writing is a key part of this PDF.
> The Comic Strip Challenge: This PDF features 50 comic strip titles on top of a comic strip template. It's designed to activate young people's creative & critical thinking and to exercise their visual storytelling skills.
> Create Stories: Whether writing or drawing or both, the task here is to build stories around 115 universal themes & ideas. A fun variety of storytelling templates are included in the package, enabling participants to choose how to best communicate their narratives.
> Decisions & Dilemmas: 100 fun and quirky scenarios that will test and exercise those all-important decision-making skills. This remains the best-selling individual PDF on this website.
> Draw Stuff: Focused on activating the creative brain every day through sketching or drawing, this PDF offers 400 prompts across 106 pages - and, no, you don't have to be good at drawing. Prompts, which range in complexity, exercise critical, lateral and creative thinking.
> Hmm... Mysterious Circumstances Cards: Each card describes a mysterious scenario that could appear in a story. Participants then come up with potential explanations. There are two options for using these cards - an open-ended version that focuses more on creative thinking and a yes-or-no question version that revolves more around critical thinking. 88 cards.
> Learn Your Times Tables: While not critical or creative thinking related, it is a gem if you're trying to get kids to memorize their times tables. It is extremely straight-forward and non-fancy.
> Nonsense Arguments: 88 totally non-sensical proposals, but you have to imagine they're serious. You must pretend they're real and come up with arguments to support or oppose these outlandish ideas. A surprise hit with kids!
> Random Conversations - Cards: 200 cards in this all ages package will get everyone talking - but it's up to participants to turn that talk into a conversation. These aren't totally random conversation prompts, by the way. They're still mostly designed around higher-order thinking skills - and they double beautifully as paragraph-of-the-week prompts.
> Say What? The Snippets of Dialogue Cards: Each card features an excerpt of dialogue. Kids or teens read that dialogue then come up with ideas for what the characters are talking about and the story they're involved in. The intro pages offer several ways to use these versatile. 73 cards
> Show Don't Tell - The Intriguing Characters Cards: Each card describes a personality trait or quirk about a character. Participants imagine ways that the character can show off this trait to the audience. 88 cards.
> Think On Your Feet - Cards: More than 270 questions on 136 cards. These aren’t brain teasers. Instead they’re simple questions that just require a bit of focus, thinking and sometimes creative problem solving to get the answers. It’s fun. Kids like it.
> Uh-oh - The Ingenious Escapes Cards: Each card provides a scenario in which a character is trapped - and participants, as the writer of the story, devise the ingenious escape plan that will get the character out of their predicament. Super cool. 75 cards.
> Ultimate Categories: For these 120 categories, participants will need to think on the spot and outside the box to come up with the items that could go into them. A fantastic way to exercise creative and lateral thinking skills.
> What's the Story?: 111 narrative-based scenarios that will put those creative thinking skills to the test. One of our most unique - and personally beloved - offerings.
> Would You Rather - Cards: 150 silly, serious and brain-boosting would you rather questions for all ages.
> X Marks the Spot: A bit like a scavenger hunt, but instead of collecting physical items, you collect answers. Over 650 questions spanning a wide range of topics that will help build up knowledge, pique curiosity and inspire a spirit of figuring things out.