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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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Childnet

Childnet: Digiduck Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engaging online safety stories for young children aged 3-7. The Digiduck collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 - 7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an...
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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.
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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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Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
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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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Npr: Fake or Real? How to Self Check the News and Get the Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a story on Facebook. Read the headline and think it's too good to be true, but it looks like it's from a news site. Experts offer tips to help sniff out fact from fake. One of today's greatest challenges in a media bombarded culture.
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Critical and Creative Thinking Bloom's Taxonomy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A simple site that gives concise definitions to critical thinking and creative thinking. Included are links to more resources about these thinking processes.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Comparing Athens and Sparta

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce the ideas of limited and unlimited government with a lesson on the government styles in Ancient Greece. Students will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that each employed....
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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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Interaction Design Foundation: What Is a Wicked Problem and How Can You Solve It?

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever come across a problem so complex that you struggled to know where to start? Then you have stumbled upon a wicked problem. While these problems may not have a definite solution, there are certainly things you can do to...
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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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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...

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