Info. Text Analysis/Critical Thinking Activity - Psychology Today (Common Core)

This is a polished, newly updated 2013 PDF of a 5-page article originally published in the March 2006 edition of Psychology Today, followed by original, critical-thinking and text-based informational reading questions for students: you may use the questions to stimulate dialogue and further problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psychology.

Students will be encouraged to apply their learning from this article to their own lives: in this way, you will be inviting students to develop the Common Core State Standards for reading/writing and speaking/listening with informational text, as well as utilizing 21st Century Skills, including critical thinking/problem-solving. Students will thus be invited into the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy (eg. moving beyond understanding to application, analysis, and evaluation)!

I have found this to be a highly thought-provoking article and questionnaire to use in my Psychology classroom, and think that you will as well. I have included a tinyurl link to the original posting on PsychToday's website for the article, but the questions are entirely mine. I am confident that not only will you enjoy this, but that your students will as well.

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