University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
Other
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 Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Thirteen? Oh No! (Pdf)
If you're superstitious you may want to try this math challenge. Test your reasoning and number sense skills by finding out if there is a Friday the 13th every year. Discover how understanding number patterns and reasoning can be helpful...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Don't Fall In
Have you ever wondered why manhole covers are round? Believe it or not, there is a logical, mathematical reason. See if you can figure it out in this NCTM Math Challenge for Families activity. A one-page activity with suggested life...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Beating Heart
Do you know how long it takes your heart to beat 100 times? Test your estimation and number sense skills with this problem-solving challenge. A one-page activity taken from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families Collection. Hints and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Line Up!
Take the math challenge. Can you figure out how long you have to wait in line to buy a ticket? An estimation and time measurement challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection. Based on real-world themes and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: A Constructivist Teaching Model for Conceptualizing Geologic Time
The activity fosters critical thinking and allows for student generated essential questions to further their understanding of Earth's history and geologic time.
Other
Google: Blockly Games
A series of educational games that teach programming to students. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based...
Education Development Center
Center for Children and Technology: No Way: Photosynthesis
Students become editors at NoWay, a web site that publishes amazing-but-true stories. Two stories being considered for publication include claims about photosynthesis. Students must evaluate the validity of the claims by looking for...
Other
Flickr: Critical Thinking Skills Poster
A downloadable critical thinking skills poster based on the original six levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 4
Middle level students delve deeper into computer programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems, to ultimately create games and stories they can share.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 3
During game and story creation, intermediate students delve deeper into programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 2
For readers with no prior computer programming experience, young scholars create programs to solve problems and create interactive games or stories to share with others.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 1
Early readers create computer programs that will help them learn to collaborate with others, develop problem solving skills, and persist through difficult tasks. Their ultimate end task is to create a custom game or story.