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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 15: Exchange Rates & Intl Capital Flows: Critical Thinking

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills. They are based on the content from Chapter 15: Exchange Rates and International Capital Flows from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch.10: Aggregate Demand/supply Model: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides 18 study questions that require critical thinking skills over the content from Chapter 10: The Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning critical thinking skills can only take a student so far. Critical thinking depends on knowing relevant content very well and thinking about it, repeatedly. Here are five strategies, consistent with the research, to help bring...
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Asa Education: Critical Thinking Skills in Education and Life

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
There are many links and resources on this site dealing with critical thinking. It includes everything from the characteristics of critical thinkers to the logic of critical thinking.
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Duke University

Dule Univ.: Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills in Children: Tips for Parents

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a well-written article that provides tips for parents to help them enhance critical thinking skills in their children.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Problem Based Learning (Pbl) and Socratic Questioning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to formulate critical thinking questions and lead class discussions about the issues raised in the books of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Student Writing Through Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for a lesson plan about writing draft letters, or reflective letters about pieces of writing that students are submitting to an instructor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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Central Rivers Aea: Webb's Depth of Knowledge (Dok)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to examine junk mail critically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
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Associated Press

Associated Press: Facebook's Fake News Problem: What's Its Responsibility?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kinetic Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try your hand at designing and building an 18-inch tower that can support a tennis ball while a fan blows on it.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.
Article
Other

Critical Thinking Secrets: What Is Systems Thinking?

For Students 9th - 10th
There are various approaches to solving problems that require us to analyze and interpret data. However, complex problems can require different perspectives to work upon and different elements that altogether play a crucial role in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Principles of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the importance of organizing your speech including critically thinking about the contents of the speech, the components of the speech, the patterns of organization to fit the different types of speeches, and...
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Other

Teaching for Intelligence: Recognizing and Encouraging Skillful Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Teaching for Intelligence: Recognizing and Encouraging Skillful Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your favorite band is great at playing music but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instrucments on tour.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 28 the Electric Hearth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As educators, the goal of developing students into discerning, critical viewers may enable them to negotiate with more confidence through the treacherous waters of today's multimedia. Studying the various viewpoints as expressed in...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Toward a Science of Simplicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Simplicity: We know it when we see it- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer. [19:05]
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Column: Can Librarians Help Solve the Fake News Problem?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Was it only a matter of time that people would begin buying into any news, even when it was actually fake? This writer felt it was no surprise. Find out why and how a librarian can help educate students how to best vet resources for...
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Other

Thinking Skills in Education: Methods to Improve Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Containing many resources for further reading about thinking skills, this site provides a lot of good information about how to improve problem solving.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Ensi Sensi/nature of Modern Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper by Martin Nickels includes a section titled "The Uncertainty & Limits of Scientific Knowledge."

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