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Teaching for Intelligence: Recognizing and Encouraging Skillful Thinking
Teaching students how to think is an important task for any educator. This well written and informative article lists 12 characteristics of intelligent behaviors that can help you understand how to teach skillful thinking to your students.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?
In this lesson, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
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Foundation for Critical Thinking: Elements of Reasoning, Intellectual Standards
Evaluate the eight elements of reasoning and consider what intellectual standards are necessary in order to apply the elements in the process of thinking.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Quiz Whiz: The Brain
Take this interactive, ten-question quiz about the human brain. Read facts about this important organ after each questions is answered, and then get your score.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Exploring Balance
During this lesson, students will engage in many activities that require them to use their balance.
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Central Rivers Aea: Webb's Depth of Knowledge (Dok)
This page offers a wealth of downloadable resources for teaching critical thinking skills. Choose the thinking skill you wish to teach, and several .pdf files will be available, including strategies, assessments and student handouts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characterization Through Thoughts
This lesson introduces characterization through thoughts.
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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking?
Reading and writing are essentially thinking. This site examines the aspects of critical thinking, including rationality, self-awareness, honesty, open-mindedness, discipline, and judgment. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
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Personality Page: Myers Briggs
This site is a personality page with easy to understand description of the 16 personality types and their development. Also gives practical applications for personality types.