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Finding Implied Main Idea | Reading Strategies for Better Comprehension Skills
The implied main idea is not clearly stated in any one sentence in the passage, but it is always there. You just can't take your finger and point at it or take a highlighter and highlight it. The implied main idea comes together in your...
Curated OER
Collecting Like Terms
Focus on classification using this resource. A young girl demonstrates how to sort and classify objects by cleaning her room. It is a great way to link classroom learning to real life tasks.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: The Thinking Competency
Lisa Smith explains how Rototuna School in New Zealand helps teachers develop rich understandings of the key competencies. This approach involves engaging with research, exploring personal experience, building a framework of the language...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Moral Decision Making in Tim O'brien's "On the Rainy River"
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing lesson plans straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own teaching experiences as teach this lesson regarding Tim O'Brien's short story "On the Rainy River."
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Moral Development
This lesson will explain how moral values are acquired through the examination of the stages of Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
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What Is Critical Thinking and Why Is It Important?
One of the thinking skills for the 21st century is that of critical thinking. This site defines what critical thinking is and explains why it is important in today's world.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 5 (God's Goodness and Justice)
People often say that God is good, and that God is just. But in what sense is God good and just? This video presents an argument from Classical Theism that God's goodness and justice do not, as Theistic Personalists, think, count as...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 4 (God's Omniscience)
What does it mean to say God *knows* things? This video examines two answers to that question. Theistic personalists hold that God knows things in the same sense in which we know things: by observing them. Classical Theists deny this...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 3 (God's Omnipotence)
Both Classical Theists and Theistic Personalists agree that God created the world. But they disagree about how we should understand God's causality. Does God cause things in the same sense in which we humans cause things, or is God's...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 2 (In Favor of Classical Theism)
In this video, Elmar Kremer (University of Toronto) introduces two theories of the nature of God: classical theism and theistic personalism. In part 2, he considers several arguments for and against classical theism.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 1 (Two Conceptions of God)
In this video, Elmar Kremer (University of Toronto) introduces two theories of the nature of God: classical theism and theistic personalism. In part 1, he considers the arguments that have been made for each theory.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Problem of Free Will
Richard discusses one of the classic philosophical problem of free will --- that is, the question of whether we decide things for ourselves, or are forced to go one way or another. He distinguishes between two different worries. One...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Puzzle of Grue
In this video, Sinan Dogramaci (The University of Texas at Austin) explains the puzzle of grue. He discusses how this puzzle undercut the attempt to formally develop inductive logic, the logic of probabilistic support.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: Virtue Epistemology
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) introduces virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that takes intellectual virtue as the central concept in discussions of theory of knowledge. Along the way, he...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Value of Knowledge
People tend to value knowledge; it's better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is correct by pure luck. But why? What's so great about knowledge? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jeremy Fantl (University of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Preface Paradox
Everybody has false beliefs, including you. But that means everyone's beliefs are self-contradictory. If we wrote down everything you believe in a book, we'd have to include one more statement in the book's preface: 'some of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The True Self)
Does our ordinary notion of a "true self" simply pick out a certain part of the mind? or is this notion actually wrapped up in some inextricable way with our own values and ideals?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The Narrative Self)
In this video, Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University) introduces the narrative view of personal identity and its major problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The Essential Moral Self)
Using the method of experimental philosophy, Nina Strohminger (Yale University) and Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona) compare philosophical and everyday answers to the question 'Which aspect of the self is most essential for personal...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mind: Mind Body Dualism
Are we just physical things? or perhaps just mental things? Maybe both? In this video, Alex Byrne (MIT) explains a modern argument due to Saul Kripke for mind-body dualism.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metaphysics: The Grandfather Paradox
Agustin Rayo explains the grandfather paradox, one of the classic paradoxes of time travel.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Sizes of Infinity, Part 2 (Getting Real)
Part 2 of a pair. After part 1, you might have thought that all different infinite collections of things are the same size. Not so! In this video, Agustin shows us another of Georg Cantor's results: that for every size of infinity, there...
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Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Sizes of Infinity, Part 1 (Hilbert's Hotel)
Part 1 of a pair. Agustin teaches us about some weird properties of infinity, using an example due to mathematician David Hilbert called 'Hilbert's Hotel'. He shows us a result proved by another mathematician, Georg Cantor: that many...