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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 6 9
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 "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 4 6
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 " Writing Haiku," "Myths," "Sojourner...
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Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons for High School
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 "Vitalizing Vapid Vocabulary," "To Kill A...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Excellent and detailed instructional activity on Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Discusses and includes higher-level thinking skills such as the desire to belong, with relevance to learners.
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Penn. Department of Education:comparing and Contrasting Different Versions
Comparing and contrasting is a higher-level thinking skill promoted in the Common Core Standards leading to the ability to comprehend and analyze texts through various topics and genres. This lesson on Comparing and Contrasting Stories...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Do You Mean?"
Excellent classroom activities for building learners' character. Used to motivate students to use higher-level thinking skills, read, and develop an appreciation for their culture. Good resource.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your learners chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
Everything ESL
Animal Habitats: The Polar Regions
Stimulate and challenge your ESL students with a unit on Polar regions. Students will use higher level thinking skills while learning about animals, habitats and food chains. You will find many downloadable pages.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Do You Mean?"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Used to motivate students to use higher-level thinking skills, read, and develop an appreciation for their culture. Good resource.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man
Introduce your primary young scholars to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.