Year 2 Critical thinking: Summer 1 worksheet

“Whose view is it?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 critical thinking unit “Critical thinking: Summer 1”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 25 to 30 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Whose view is it?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Critical thinking · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can understand that people in different places can notice different things.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many sides does this shape have?
2.
Which pet got the most votes in the chart?
DogsCatsFish
3.
How many children were counted altogether?

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ben sat on the bench. Mia stood by the gate. They each counted the birds in the park.

Watch me

Ben sat on the bench. He counted 5 birds.

Mia stood by the gate. She counted 3 birds.

Both were telling the truth. Each one is a witness to what they saw from their place.

Now you

1.
Leo stood by the pond and counted 4 ducks. Kit stood at the far gate and counted 2 ducks. Why did Kit count fewer?
Kit was further away from the pondKit did not like ducksDucks were not there

C Your turn6 min

A dog ran through the tulip bed and squashed the tulips. Look at the park. Think about where each person is before you answer.

A park with swings, a tall hedge, a tulip bed with a bench, and a dog running through the tulips

1.
The child on the swings looks at the path. Did they see the tulips squashed? Circle yes or no.
YesNo
2.
The gardener kneels by the tulip bed. Did she see the tulips squashed? Circle yes or no.
YesNo
3.
The gardener has her back to the swings. Did she see the child laughing? Circle yes or no.
YesNo
4.
A grandad sits on a bench facing the tulip bed. Could he see the tulips squashed? Circle yes or no.
YesNo

Say it out loud: Which person could see the tulips, and which could see the swings? What changed each time?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A tall hedge standing between a swing set and a flowerbed

Kit says: “The gardener saw the tulips squashed, so the swing child did too.”

1.
Why is Kit wrong? Circle the best reason.
The hedge blocked the child's view of the tulipsChildren never look at flowersThe gardener did not see the tulips

E Think deeper4 min

A grassy hill looking down over a park with a path and a tree

1.
Another person sits on the hill and watches the whole park from far away. What might they see that the others missed? What might they still miss? Write two sentences.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Whose view is it? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 3 If your child miscounts the sides, ask them to trace each side with a finger and count again.

2. Cats If your child picks Dogs, ask which bar reaches highest on the chart.

3. 13 If the total is wrong, your child may have missed a row. Ask them to count each row with a finger and add.

B

1. Kit was further away from the pond If your child picks ducks not there, point to Kit's 2 ducks. Ask: where was Kit standing?

C

1. No If your child says yes, ask what stands between the swings and the flowers.

2. Yes If your child says no, ask where the gardener is kneeling compared with the tulips.

3. No If your child says yes, ask which way the gardener is facing.

4. Yes If your child says no, ask what the grandad is facing and whether the hedge is in his way.

D

1. The hedge blocked the child's view of the tulips If your child picks the gardener option, ask: did the gardener see them? Then ask: could the child see past the hedge?

E

1. Look for: A good answer names something seen from far away and something still missed, with a reason about where the person is standing.

Words to use

Say“Where was each person standing? What could they see from there, and what might they have missed?”

Instead of“Tell them which person is right and which one is wrong.”

After the sheet

Stand at two different doors in the kitchen. Each of you describes what you can see from your spot, then compare your descriptions.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Debating Fairly(with a plan)
Better Questions(with a plan)
Is It a Good Explanation?(with a plan)
Convincing with evidence(with a plan)
Our four thinking tools(with a plan)

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