Kids who are able to think about a problem in a new way engage in flexible thinking, while kids who get stuck in their ways tend to engage in rigid thinking. Flexible thinking skills can be practiced at home and at school. Try a few of...

Learn how to think critically by distinguishing between facts, opinions, and reasoned judgments. Practice exercise included.

With humor and an easy to understand common sense approach, this article explains how easy it is to be a creative thinker. It provides good practical ideas that will enable you to find your creative side.

Students explore the Iran-Contra Affair using a timeline and related documents, and practice critical thinking about US foreign policy during the late Cold War years, and about the actions of officials of Ronald Reagan's government. They...

Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...

Explore memory principles and strategies. Before you go to this site, list the ways you usually try to remember things. Write these strategies down (share with someone else if possible). Once you have written your strategies down, take a...

Practice your critical analysis skills for the MCAT with this passage and follow-up questions about Buddhism and pessimism.

A instructional activity where students take copies of their shoe prints, then create a story and illustrate it with pictures showing trails of footprints. Presented are samples of such trails that can be used to stimulate class...