Lesson Plan – Teaches Problem Solving Skills to Kids

Brain Labs are fun game-based programs that teach ThinkFun’s problem solving philosophy called The Super Solver System. Your students will become “Super Solvers” as they develop thinking skills they will need to tackle problems in real life!

Through these Brain Labs, students learn the three fundamentals of the Super Solver System:

Super Solver Steps
Super Solver Strategies
Super Solver State of Mind.

These Brain Labs include step-by-step power points to help guide your instruction, and below are the slides that introduce our Rush Hour Brain Lab.

Problem Solving Curriculum and Lesson Plan from ThinkFun

ThinkFun Brain Labs are fun game-based programs that teach a proprietary problem solving philosophy called The Super Solver System. Your students will become “Super Solvers” as they develop thinking skills they will need to tackle problems in real life! Through these Brain Labs, students learn the three fundamentals of the Super Solver System:

* Super Solver Steps
* Super Solver Strategies
* Super Solver State of Mind.

These Brain Labs include step-by-step power points to help guide your instruction, and here we’ve shared the slides that introduce our Rush Hour Brain Lab. Rush Hour is ThinkFun’s most popular game, and over the course of this Lab students will become well-versed in the Super Solver Steps as they play through new challenges and reflect on their thinking!

Students will learn to use these four Steps when they become frustrated with a problem.

1) Understand the problem
2) Choosing a strategy
3) Do your strategy
4) Inspect what you’ve done

Don’t have it solved yet? That’s okay. Simply loop back to Step 1 as many times as needed. Remember U Can Do It!!! (Understand, Choose, Do and Inspect)

For a free Lesson Play and Curriculum Introduction…http://tinyurl.com/lw9aan

Classroom Strategies Lab – Thinking Skills Program

Classroom Strategies Lab – Thinking Skills Program

Classroom Game Night – Teaching Problem Solving through Play

Glassroom Game Night – Teaching Problem Solving through Play