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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 4: Labor and Financial Markets: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides a list of seven critical thinking study questions covering information from Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets.
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The Critical Thinking Community: Tactical and Structural Recommendations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
16 brilliant suggestions for creating critical thought in the classroom.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 6: Economic Growth: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides a list of 10 critical thinking study questions over the content of Chapter 6: Economic Growth from Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 14: Monetary Policy & Bank Regulation:critical Thinking Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills based on the content of Chapter 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Introduction to Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to the concept of Critical Thinking examines the true definition and gives examples where it can be used as a constructive force.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 16: Government Budgets: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking bases on the content of Chapter 16: Government Budgets and Fiscal Policy from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Critical Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting interview with Richard Paul discussing what critical thinking means. There are many insights as to what critical thinking involves and how it should be used in the classroom.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Success Skills: Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on critical thinking including a definition, examples, a video of critical thinking in action, logic in critical thinking, questions a critical thinker asks, guidelines for critical thinking, problem-solving, and...
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...
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Education Development Center

Center for Children and Technology: No Way: Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Moving away from the fantasy worlds of video games, No Way draws young scholars into a compelling real-life scenario in which they are editorial interns at a science-themed website. This classroom activity on electricity offers a fun way...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Thinking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for seven lessons about working dogs that teach critical thinking skills and a vocabulary strategy called Word Storms. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World:critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills; these cover the content of Chapter 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Childnet

Childnet: Digiduck Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engaging online safety stories for young children aged 3-7. The Digiduck collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 - 7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: Problem Based Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn both the rationale for problem-based learning, and a simple model of the steps a student can follow to address and solve a problem through logical, critical thinking.
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
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Npr: Fake or Real? How to Self Check the News and Get the Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a story on Facebook. Read the headline and think it's too good to be true, but it looks like it's from a news site. Experts offer tips to help sniff out fact from fake. One of today's greatest challenges in a media bombarded culture.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Comparing Athens and Sparta

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce the ideas of limited and unlimited government with a lesson on the government styles in Ancient Greece. Students will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that each employed....
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Aventis Learning Group: Systems Thinking: The What, Why, When and How

For Students 9th - 10th
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It is particularly useful in addressing...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Headphone Helper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Blimp Jet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a blimp that hovers, and then modify it to use balloon power to travel in a straight path across the room? Try it!
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Floater

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you make a balloon hover in one spot and move without you touching it when you create air currents? Give it a try!
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Roving on the Moon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?

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