Bell Ringers - Brainstorming Warm Ups for Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Brainstorming Bell Ringers - Warm Ups for Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Foster idea development, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills in your students with this dynamic resource. Designed to engage students in brainstorming, these bell-ringers offer a variety of prompts to initiate discussion and idea generation. Each of the 40 slides presents a thought-provoking prompt that encourages students to brainstorm and list ideas that fall within a specific category. Turn this into a class competition where each team attempts to list unique and creative ideas that other groups have not considered!

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Included In This Brainstorming Bell Ringers Resource:

➡️ 40 Brainstorming Prompts Slides: This 40-slide PowerPoint Presentation provides you and your students with a variety of high-interest brainstorming prompts to list items that fall within a certain category. Some of the prompts include: Things a newborn baby would say if they could talk, Things people are afraid of, Things you eat with a spoon, Compliments to give a friend...and many more fun and interesting prompts. Have students attempt to brainstorm as many ideas as they can and develop outside-the-box ideas that other groups have not considered! The slideshow includes a timer element as well, so students must complete their brainstorming in a specific time.

➡️ Brainstorming Student Response Sheets: Have students use one of the two brainstorming graphic organizers to write their ideas on the specific topic. Also included are two sizes for each (full and half page) for your convenience.

How These Brainstorming Bell Ringers Work:

• Once a week, start your class by putting students into groups of 3-4 students. Have each group complete the brainstorm of the week by thinking of words or ideas that relate to an interesting topic for 3 minutes.
  
  
• Make this a friendly competition between groups! Have students volunteer to share their answers after the three minutes, If another group has the same answer, all the groups have to cross it out. Give one point for answers that no other team has! This will encourage your students to think outside the box and come up with more creative answers.
  
  
• You will be so surprised by how creative your students get after doing this activity for a few weeks. They will push themselves to start to think of answers that no one else will think of, so they can't get more points for their team.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Brainstorming Bell Ringers Resource:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We end our week with this activity and my students look forward to it. They enjoy competing against each other in their lists.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Anything that creates a challenge brightens my students' days. Thank you for this resource!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a great way to get the kids thinking without realizing they are using critical thinking skills.

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