One of the gifts you can give children is allowing them the opportunity to solve problems. Creative and critical thinking skills are essential. The opportunity to take risks in a safe environment with an acceptance that failure is a springboard to growth and success ensures you are nurturing their natural curiosity and wonder about the world.

You will be giving them the gift of lifelong learning.

These open-ended question prompts will encourage higher order thinking in your children. Higher order thinking is a focus in every curriculum and with every age group. Enrich the academic and social learning in your classroom by encouraging your children’s natural curiosity.

You will receive a .pdf file containing 30 beautiful open-ended question prompts. Each prompt is designed to be printed on A4 paper or card. If you wanted them to be a smaller size, you could tile the printing to have 2 or 4 images to a page. I do recommend printing them at a high quality to achieve the stunning quality.

I place these cards around my room to prompt my questioning when I’m interacting with the children. They help me to challenge the children to think for themselves. They are also a great reminder for me to invite the children to share their thinking and their view of the world.

Sometimes I add beauty and value to a learning centre by including one or two of these open-ended question photos in the provocation. They assist me and other educators in the room to take the learning to the next level.

These open-ended question prompts are a valuable and effective learning tool. It’s important to me to help my children develop higher order thinking skills and to learn in an interesting and engaging way.