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Right Education for the 21st Century
Making an understanding of the role of education as it applies to the 21st century is the focus of this article.
Family Education
Family Education: Improving Your Child's Thinking Skills
By asking the right kinds of questions, you can help improve a students thinking skills. This site lists several ideas and types of questions that can help develop a child's critical thinking skills.
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English Zone: Simple Present Tense: Fact, Habit, Opinion, or Schedule
This 10question, self-scoring quiz for fact or opinion, but it takes it further to include habit and schedule. Students read the statement and the possible choices and select the correct one. The options are explained with examples at...
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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: Ways of the Wild
Explore the problem of wildlife management in many African countries. Apply critical thinking skills to a decision-making scenario and strategically communicate information.
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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: City of Gold
Investigate the challenges facing archeologists when dealing with local cultures near dig sites, and consider the difficulty of remaining sensitive to the past yet still being able to learn from it.
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How Can We Teach Critical Thinking?
As teachers, we know how important it is to teach students how to think. This article provides some insight in how to teach critical thinking skills to our students.
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Class Flow: Southwest Literacy Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a literacy unit based around a Southwest / Westward Expansion Theme. Native Americans, pioneers, and the old west is covered. 8 different literacy strategies are taught with FULL...
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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.
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Class Flow: Answering Questions With Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces using key words in a question to form an answer, which will then be written in a complete sentence. It uses a magic box on a couple of pages to check answers.
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Class Flow: Elements of Literacy
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will use the symbols of the chemical elements to form words. The students will improve their functional literacy and critical thinking skills. Students will also increase...
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Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Cubing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that uses the cubing technique to help students gain perspective on a topic.
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Edutopia: K 5 I Pad Apps for Evaluating Evaluation
The cognitive domain Evaluating focuses on skills necessary to judge the value of ideas, techniques, products, or solutions. Students must evaluate the credibility or functionality of given content with clearly defined criteria and...
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Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies
This resource presents strategies to help improve your critical thinking skills, this site provides useful information for applying these skills to your everyday life.
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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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Thinking Skills in Education: Comparing Four Frameworks
An interesting article that discusses various types of thinking skills and why they are important in education.
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How to Improve Critical Thinking
It is important to be able to think in different ways. This site gives some ideas on how to improve your critical thinking skills.
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Cuesta College: Interpreting What You Read
This site from Cuesta College provides both in-depth definitions of fact and opinion, and several clear examples of each.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
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Pbs Kids: Cat in the Hat: Spina Ma Jigger
Spin the spinner to see what activity you will complete! Will it be popping balloons? Coloring a picture? Or building sandcastles? Spin and see!