You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful activity. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...

Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...

What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...

Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The lesson has four parts with multiple activities and...

Designed specifically for math instructors, the seventh workshop of a 15-part series allows time to explore Webb's DOK, ponder open-ended questions, and create lessons to apply what is learned. Teachers craft high-quality math problems...

Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...

A 24-page manual provides principals, educators, and other school personnel with factual information about sexual orientation development, important legal principles they must consider, and problematic efforts to change sexual...

How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

Psychologists use statistics? Scholars investigate the research behind the methodology of statistical analysis. Using hands-on practice, case-studies, and scatterplots, they complete various tasks to understand the very roots of high...

Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...

This lesson focuses on distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning. Sometimes it's difficult to separate these two types of reasoning because we often use them together; drawing conclusions in inductive reasoning is likely...

Given problem situations, the student will determine if the solutions are reasonable.

This list explains the top five reasons that staying in school can provide many advantages in life.

Use these teaching tips from the PBS Kids Lab to help children make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equations, use addition and subtraction within 20 to...

Presented is the complete text of Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason written in 1794.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a motivating, kid-friendly song that celebrates the reasons to write in everyday life.

The original text of Thomas Paine's work,"Age of Reason," written in 1794, describing the principles of enlightened government and society.

Given conjectures about quadrilaterals, the student will use deductive reasoning and counter examples to prove or disprove the conjectures.

Given conjectures about circles, the student will use deductive reasoning and counterexamples to prove or disprove the conjectures.

Given a graph and/or verbal description of a situation (both continuous and discrete), the student will identify mathematical domains and ranges and determine reasonable domain and range values for the given situations.

Given verbal descriptions of situations involving systems of linear equations, the student will determine the reasonableness of the solutions to the system of equations.

When using copyrighted materials as part of the creative production process, you can document your own (or your students') fair-use reasoning process using this Google form. It's a tool to strengthen your critical thinking and reasoning...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reasoning is a fundamental part of geometric proofs. There are several types of reasoning, many of which we innately and naturally picked up. However, the different...

Learn what deductive reasoning is and look at examples of how to apply it.