Boost your child’s critical thinking skills with our engaging worksheets designed for ages 7-9! These carefully crafted resources encourage creativity, problem-solving, and analytical skills while making learning fun and interactive. Covering various topics, our worksheets challenge young minds with puzzles, logic games, and scenario-based questions that promote deeper understanding and reasoning. Designed by educators, these materials align with developmental goals for early learners, ensuring your child is supported in their educational journey. Explore our collection to help foster a love for learning and inspire innovative thinking in every activity. Download critical thinking enhancement worksheets today for a brighter future!


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Around the Globe Worksheet
Around the Globe Worksheet

Around the Globe Worksheet

This worksheet introduces your students to the globe. Explain that it's a 3D representation of our planet, and highlight the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Hemispheres, plus the Equator and Prime Meridian. Then, have them circle the fractions associated with the shapes shown. Point out the shaded or colored sections for guidance.
Around the Globe Worksheet
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King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet
King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet

King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet

This worksheet helps your child learn to checkmate the opposing king with their king and queen. Descriptive sample boards show the strategy, and more boards help determine which one demonstrates how the king assists the queen.
King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet
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Attacking Power of Chess Pieces Worksheet
Attacking Power of Chess Pieces Worksheet

Attacking Power of Chess Pieces Worksheet

. This worksheet introduces your child to chess pieces and how they move. Ask them to look at the table, noting the squares each piece can control. Then, have them circle the most powerful piece among each power pictured at the bottom. With this insight, your child will gain an understanding of a chess piece's power and how many squares it can attack.
Attacking Power of Chess Pieces Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 61
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 61
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 61
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One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

Boost your child's critical thinking and strategy skills with this fun puzzle activity. They'll use their logical thinking to plot ways to checkmate the black king, and then check their answer with the given choices. A great way to improve their skills and have a blast doing it!
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
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Dividing with Landforms
Dividing with Landforms

Dividing with Landforms

Mixing subjects to help your child learn is always nice. This worksheet combines landforms, problem-solving and division. The PDF highlights numbers, uses bold colors and provides pictures to help your child understand the questions and answer choices, making them feel empowered, not intimidated.
Dividing with Landforms
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One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 4 Worksheet
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 4 Worksheet

One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 4 Worksheet

Want to challenge your logistician? This engaging PDF worksheet tests their critical thinking, strategy and visual-spatial skills. They must plot to overtake and checkmate the king and use the answer choices to check if they've strategized correctly. It's a fun way to build problem-solving skills needed for higher-level math.
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 4 Worksheet
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Adding up to 50: Page 49
Adding up to 50: Page 49

Adding up to 50: Page 49

Adding up to 50: Page 49
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Critical thinking enhancement for children aged 7-9 is crucial for their cognitive and social development. At this stage, children are increasingly capable of analytical thought, making it an ideal time to cultivate these skills. Teaching critical thinking encourages children to question assumptions, evaluate information, and draw reasoned conclusions—skills that are essential for effective problem-solving and decision making.

In a world inundated with information, the ability to discern credible sources and think independently is more vital than ever. By fostering critical thinking, parents and teachers can help children develop resilience against misinformation and the influences of peer pressure, empowering them to make thoughtful choices.

Moreover, critical thinking promotes creativity and fosters curiosity, enabling children to explore diverse perspectives and understand complex issues. This not only enhances their academic performance but also enhances their interpersonal skills as they learn to communicate their ideas and appreciate differing viewpoints.

Furthermore, nurturing critical thinking in early learners sets the foundation for lifelong learning, preparing them for future academic challenges and equipping them with the skills to navigate a rapidly changing world. Ultimately, investing in critical thinking cultivation ensures that children grow into well-rounded, capable individuals who can thrive both personally and professionally.