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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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Brandeis University: How Planning and Reflection Develop Young Children's Thinking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young children ages three to six are capable of making thoughtful decisions about their behavior and keen observations about their environment. We can promote the development of thinking and reasoning in young children in the early years...
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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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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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PBS

Pbs: Flexible Thinking: How to Encourage Kids to Go With the Flow

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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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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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 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: 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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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Probability and Outcome Discussion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a virtual discussion between a teacher and student about probability and outcome. The virtual teacher poses wonderful questions for the students to think about. The virtual students then respond to the inquiries.
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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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Quick Start Computing: Computational Thinking [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
This short article clearly illustrates the need for teaching computational thinking in the schools. It lays out the foundation of teaching these skills across grade levels.
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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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Critical Thinking Community: Teaching Tactics That Encourage Active Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Eleven great ideas for teachers to engage their students in active learning and listening.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Alouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Think Alouds help students learn to monitor their thinking as they read an assigned passage. Students are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while reading. This process reveals how much they...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North," an excerpt of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Ann Jacobs, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides four study questions that require critical thinking skills based on the content of Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective from Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Problem Solving in Action

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Toddlers imitate what they see, preschoolers try hands-on trial and error, and kindergartners tap language and abstract thinking skills to solve problems. This article takes a look at the ages and stages of developing problems solving...
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Encouraging Creative Thinking With Awareness Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Often times getting your students to think creatively is as simple as asking the right kinds of questions. This excellent article discusses the types of questions to ask and provides valuable insight into the creative thinking process.
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reasoning Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial on reasoning skills focusing on both inductive and deductive reasoning. Has several examples and exercises with answers and discussion.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Think Critically

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to think critically by distinguishing between facts, opinions, and reasoned judgments. Practice exercise included.
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BBC

Bbc: Help! I Don't Have Any Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're looking for a new role but are worried that you don't have the skills for the job, you may well have more to offer than you think.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This reproducible resource provides an assessment rubric to be used with students' oral presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4

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