Learn about the concepts of effective reasoning and critical thinking skills as taught to students.

This site provides a wealth of material tailored to the needs of primary and secondary educators interested in developing their own critical thinking skills and those of their students. Content includes numerous articles focused on the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in being effective critical thinkers in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. It is aligned with CCSS, but also can be used in...

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 "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...

10 valuable critical thinking exercises ranging in subject matter. Includes questions and exercises regarding biological development, language usage, morals, values and ethics, and thought cycles.

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 " Writing Haiku," "Myths," "Sojourner...

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 "Vitalizing Vapid Vocabulary," "To Kill A...

Test your knowledge of the fundamentals of critical thinking.

Test your knowledge of the fundamentals of critical thinking.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS in ELA is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS in ELA is...

The Story of Ferdinand by Robert Lawson is about the misconceptions people have when they jump to conclusions. After exploring the story, young scholars will discuss situations in real life. Blackline masters and a rubric are included.

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, young scholars must make inferences...

Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.

Listed here is a wealth of information and articles all pertaining to the idea of critical thinking. Much of the information here can be useful in understanding what critical thinking is and how to apply it to your classroom.

A downloadable critical thinking skills poster based on the original six levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

For this lab, students will learn to organize and present data in a visual way so that they can then summarize in writing their conclusions about the relationships between the data.

This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice, and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. Includes an extensive teacher's guide.

Users of this learning module will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.

Help students recognize and cultivate creative and critical thinking using various activities that connect math and music!

Each One Special by Frieda Wishinsky and Werner Zimmermann is a story about fairness. The lessons in this teacher guide are for Grades 1-3 and lead students through critical thinking exercises about the story where they learn to evaluate...

This activity focuses on making predictions through critical thinking. Students read the title and view a few pictures from a story prior to reading it and record their predictions. After reading the story, students then compare their...