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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons to Encourage Critical Thought

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a list of 16 critical thinking study questions covering Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of five critical thinking questions based on content presented in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Perspective: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides a list of eight critical thinking study questions covering the material in Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Perspective.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 6: Economic Growth: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides a list of 10 critical thinking study questions over the content of Chapter 6: Economic Growth from Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapt. 11: The Keynesian Perspective: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides 16 study questions that require critical thinking skills. They cover the content presented in Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 13: Money and Banking: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills based on the content of Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Success Skills: Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on critical thinking including a definition, examples, a video of critical thinking in action, logic in critical thinking, questions a critical thinker asks, guidelines for critical thinking, problem-solving, and...
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Critical Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting interview with Richard Paul discussing what critical thinking means. There are many insights as to what critical thinking involves and how it should be used in the classroom.
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The Critical Thinking Community: Tactical and Structural Recommendations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
16 brilliant suggestions for creating critical thought in the classroom.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World:critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills; these cover the content of Chapter 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Macroeconomics: Chapter 8: Inflation: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This section offers study questions that require critical thinking skills. It covers the content of Chapter 8: Inflation.
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Becoming a Critic of Your Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents an article that explains why it is important to be someone who is a good thinker. Provided are four strategies for critical thinking.
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Family Education

Family Education: Improving Your Child's Thinking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article explains that 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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Northwestern University

Northwestern University: Ct Stem Project: Computational Thinking: Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Northwestern University frames lessons which bring computational thinking enhanced activities into STEM classrooms.
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How to Improve Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Critical Reading as a Learning Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on critical reading using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, "Critical Reading 101," which includes separating fact from opinion, 6 propaganda techniques, and 6 common fallacies in reasoning. Also provided is...
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Family Education

Family Education: Improving Your Child's Thinking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Doha Debates: Systems Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
An 8-lesson module on the systems thinking mindset and how it can be applied to solve complex problems. Includes downloadable lesson plans.
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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It is increasingly important to teach students how to develop their critical thinking abilities. This site lists some ideas and strategies that can help teach them to improve their critical thinking skills.
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Csicop: Field Guide to Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article, originally published in Skeptical Inquirer, outlines some of the key components of the scientific problem-solving process while addressing the many reasons for the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the U.S. (Published in...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: Problem Based Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
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.