Free sample · ages 8–12
If aliens came to dinner… what would your kid ask them?
A free, print-and-go thinking challenge from my Thinking Day workbook. One big, silly question, and a whole lot of real reasoning hiding underneath it.
Free until Thu 3 Dec, 11:59pm ET
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Two pages from a Thinking Day Junior lesson, ready to print. Free until Thu 3 Dec, 11:59pm US Eastern.
What's on the table
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The big question
A dinner guest from another planet. What do they eat, what do they ask, and what would they think of us?
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Thinking, not worksheets
Prompts that get kids explaining, comparing and backing up their ideas, out loud or on paper.
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Print and go
No prep, no marking key to decode. Pop it on the table after dinner and see where it goes.
Hi! I'm Francesca, a high school English teacher and a mom to two energetic boys.
Here's a thing I've noticed. Ask a kid to "write a paragraph about your opinion" and you get… a shrug. Ask them what they'd serve an alien for dinner and suddenly they have opinions. Strong ones. With reasons.
That's the whole idea. The silly question does the heavy lifting, and the thinking sneaks in through the side door.
Francesca
The Classic High School Teacher