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Criticalthinking.org: Develop Critical Thinking Skills
This site provides a wealth of material tailored to the needs of primary and secondary educators interested in developing their own critical thinking skills and those of their students. Content includes numerous articles focused on the...
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The Critical Thinking Community: Tactical and Structural Recommendations
16 brilliant suggestions for creating critical thought in the classroom.
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Critical Thinking Community: Teaching Tactics That Encourage Active Learning
Eleven great ideas for teachers to engage their students in active learning and listening.
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons to Encourage Critical Thought
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include Corduroy, "The Pledge of Allegiance," "What...
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 6 9
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 4 6
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include " Writing Haiku," "Myths," "Sojourner...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Problem Based Learning (Pbl) and Socratic Questioning
Part of a teacher workshop called "Making Civics Real," this section explains how to use questioning, especially Socratic questioning, in problem-based learning. For those not used to employing the Socratic method, the "Taxonomy of...
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Kathy Schrock's Home Page: Abc's of Website Evaluation [Pdf]
Noted technology educator Kathy Schrock provides an alphabetical list of qualities to evaluate in judging websites. She provides example websites to look at for each quality. In addition, she gives a list of websites to use when...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
Stanford University
Stanford U.: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]
A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons for High School
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Vitalizing Vapid Vocabulary," "To Kill A...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Peg the Cat: Happy Camel Game
Help find the camel's toys in bowls of camel food by using a pan balance scale.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 4: Labor and Financial Markets: Critical Thinking Questions
This section provides a list of seven critical thinking study questions covering information from Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets.
Associated Press
Associated Press: Facebook's Fake News Problem: What's Its Responsibility?
Is it real? Is it reliable? Can it be confirmed? Always check sources of news found through social media outlets before believing it. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is facing criticism for the amount of fake news posted on Facebook....
PBS
Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Games: Codebreaker
Help find a safe passage by avoiding the boobie traps in this game. See the pattern on the top of the screen for each level and continue that pattern as you move forward through each level.
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Clark College Libraries: Evaluating Information: Hoax or Real?
You probably know that anyone can put anything on the web. You might even be aware that much information on the web is inaccurate. Some misinformation is unintentional - a result of sloppy or incomplete research. But other sites contain...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
For this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
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Aventis Learning Group: Systems Thinking: The What, Why, When and How
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It is particularly useful in addressing...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Problem Based Learning
Learn both the rationale for problem-based learning, and a simple model of the steps a student can follow to address and solve a problem through logical, critical thinking.
FNO Press
Fno.org: Inspired Investigations
An article at From Now On about how to help students do better research by changing the focus of research assignments and teaching students to ask essential questions. Some suggestions include using mind mapping, and using Inspiration to...
Yale University
Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking
Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Peer Assisted Learning Strategy
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is a classwide peer tutoring program. Teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The pair works on various activities that address the academic needs of both students. Pairs change...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Exit Slips
The Exit-Slip strategy requires students to write responses to questions you pose at the end of class. Exit Slips help students reflect on what they have learned and express what or how they are thinking about the new information. Exit...