An introduction to the concept of Critical Thinking examines the true definition and gives examples where it can be used as a constructive force.

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...

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...

This activity explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This activity introduces the special characteristics of poetry and leads students through a look at how poems are structured and why. Includes links to poems and web...

A white paper is a focused analysis often used to describe how a technology solves a problem. In this literacy activity, students write a simplified version of a white paper on an alternative electrical power generation technology. In...

This lesson focuses on analysis including defining analysis and listing the essential skills of analysis.

Outdoor air pollution poses a major threat to human health and threatens the ozone layer. Students will examine real time weather data in this extensive unit to learn how air quality is measured, its health impact on at-risk populations,...

This study resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the MCAT. "Vectors and scalar" questions are provided on this resource.

This lesson introduces students to Emily Dickinson's poetry which often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. Students examine how she writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to...

Provides an overview of how to evaluate and make judgments about scientific information.

A lesson plan where the teacher presents the five traditional theories of art (formalism, instrumentalism, imitationalism expressionism and institutionalism.) Students review Chicana/o and earlier protest art from an instrumental point...

Twain fan Salwen argues that the book is far from racist, and offers several pieces of evidence for the reader's consideration.

This study resource from Khan Academy provides assessment practice for the MCAT's Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section. This practice resource includes the article "Censorship: An Unnecessary Evil" with practice questions.

This article focuses on using fiction to teach immigration history. Including fiction like Atticus Lish's 2015 novel, "Preparation for the Next Life" can meaningfully enrich a history seminar. A critical analysis of the novel introduces...

"Utilitarian ethics" questions are provided on this resource. This study resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the MCAT.