Publication: Brain Games!: Ready-to-Use Activities That Make Thinking Fun for Grades 6-12

• Umstatter, Jack

ISBN: 0876281870 
LCCN: 95-49674

Book Description
Provides over 170 exciting, ready-to-use activities to
spark critical & creative thinking in all students, grades
6-12! BRAIN GAMES! is an innovative resource that helps you
quickly and easily turn virtually any spare moment into
prime learning time for your students!

From the Back Cover
For your convenience, all of the Brain Games! activities
are individually printed in a large spiral-bound format
that folds flat for photocopying and are organized into
seven sections covering a wide range of topics

Listening and remembering : 18 activities to give students
practice in following directions, memorizing, and listening
more effectively, for example, "Stand and Deliver" and
"Accidents Happen!"

Across the curriculum: A collection of 33 exciting
exercises in a variety of content areas, including titles
such as "Time Marches On," "A Stately Find," and "Which
Science?"

Language and writing: 34 activities for building written
and oral communication skills, including "Mrs. Malaprop Has
Arrived," in which students correct mangled proverbs ("You
are the apple of my pie").

Logic and reasoning: 20 unique thinking activities, for
example, "Mixed Up Advertisements," " The Art of
Organizing," and "Know us by our slogans".

Math: 21 activities emphasizing fun and problem solving,
such as "Number Stumpers" "A taxing situation" and "Math
and the movies."

The world around you: 28 consumer and career-related
activities to broaden students' experience, including
exercises like "Countries, Capitals, and Currencies" "The
Needed Product," and "Jobs...Jobs...Jobs".

Me: 18 activities to help teens better understand
themselves, their values, and their interest, for example,
"If I were," "Your Personal Timeline," and "The Sounds and
Messages of Music."