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Evaluating Casual Claims

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The Learning and Teaching of Critical Thinking Skills (.pdf)
The Learning and Teaching of Critical Thinking Skills (.html)
Evaluating Causal Claims (.doc)
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Responsible decision making relies on the ability to a recognize, analyze, and evaluate claims. The worksheets and activities in this 32-page packet teach learners how to distinguish among opinions, reasoned arguments, facts, and logical fallacies often used to support argument claims.

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Concepts

social-emotional learning, casel, critical thinking, evaluating claims, facts, fact and opinion, opinions, arguments, counterarguments, cause and effect, evaluating sources, evaluating expressions, making decisions, responsible decision-making, logical fallacies, logical thinking, analogies

Additional Tags

college and career readiness

Instructional Ideas

Rather than making color copies of the worksheets, use the PowerPoint and have class members respond in their journals
Use the worksheets as part of a two-week social-emotional learning unit, or a weekly lesson
Preview the teacher resource packet before beginning the series

Classroom Considerations

The second in a series of eight resources; the sixth resource provides the Powerpoint presentation for the second lesson
Worksheets may be downloaded in English or Chinese as either a PDF or DOC

Pros

The Teacher Reference packet linked in the "Included Materials" provides background information on the resource, answer keys, teaching tips, and the text for the slides

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Common Core

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