Twenty-one pieces of tagboard can lead your class to a greater understanding of integers when you use them to form a human number line. After creating this math tool, two strategies for adding and subtracting will have your...

Test your pupils' reasoning skills with several activities and a quick mystery to solve. Learners watch and analyze a few video clips that demonstrate reasoning in action, practice deduction with an interactive and collaborative...

What is your leadership style? Tweens and teens independently complete a Four Leadership Styles worksheet. Once completed, they use a leadership code to identify their prominent leadership style. Class members gather by style, brainstorm...

Whodunnit? Find out who killed Mr. Brooks through a logical examination of evidence. Class members fill out a couple of data tables to help them pin down the suspect. After they've figured out just who the culprit is, pupils compose...

Developed specifically for AVID students, this packet of materials that includes an explanation of the Socratic seminar, the preparation materials, and tips and protocols, is a must-have resource for any class. 

Technology or engineering teams are given a task to design, construct, and test the efficiency of a structure that will foster an even temperature throughout an entire sunny day. Intended as a long-term project, pupils research, plan,...

Young scholars demonstrate their knowledge of geography with this fun, collaborative social studies project. Working in small groups, students develop their very own countries, writing descriptions...

Focus on writing argument essays with your high schoolers. The lesson suggested here focuses on The Jungle, by Sinclair Lewis; however, the idea could be adapted for other texts. Check out the quick quiz provided at the end of the...

Your learners need to develop skills to argue effectively, and this comes by understanding the traditions that make claims valid, and what detracts from their effectiveness.  Although this resource does not give advice on how to...

Don't let your pupils take everything at face value! They should analyze and evaluate what speakers say. Practice this skill with the two related activities described here. After brainstorming critical questions, learners can listen to...

Students investigate bio-fuel. In this investigative lesson, students create bio-fuel from vegetable oil waste. Students will analyze, predict, collect and synthesize data from their experiments with bio-fuel.

Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...

Use this website to help you hone your critical thinking and math-problem solving skills. Learn what "Negation," is and how it applies when you are working on mathematical problems and sentences.

Explore more than twenty math concepts such a perimeter, rounding, exponents, decimals, sign numbers, and more using this interactive basketball game. A Spanish version is also offered. Students results are tabulated daily.

A comprehensive site that offers student information on: Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, False Connections, Bad Logic or Propaganda, Wartime Propaganda and more! Site also offers the Propaganda Gallery - short video clips that can...

When using copyrighted materials as part of the creative production process, you can document your own (or your students') fair-use reasoning process using this Google form. It's a tool to strengthen your critical thinking and reasoning...

Test your critical thinking skills with a variety of cryptography brain teasers, phrases or expressions "encoded in some way." Solve the teasers provided at this site, and submit your own for others to try!

On this one page website sharpen your logic and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.

What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...

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...

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...

On this one page website sharpen your logic, triangle properties, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

What is the possibility that another student in your school will have your exact same initials? Try this math challenge using logical reasoning and the "Pigeonhole principle," to discover how this could actually happen. An engaging...