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Critical thinking Common Core WHST.11-12.2 resources
Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Evidence and Sourcing Lesson: Teaching Historical Thinking - Digital & Print!
This engaging lesson focuses on the Historical Thinking Concept of EVIDENCE AND SOURCING. Students will develop their historical thinking and critical analysis skills, including the following:Making inferencesPrimary vs Secondary SourcesRecognizing Bias and Reliability of sourcesSourcing historical documents using the HAPPY TIME sourcing methodAnalyzing several primary and secondary source documentsThis lesson includes the following materials:Detailed lesson planGoogle slides with big question,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Historical Thinking Bundle: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
Psychology: Split Brain Theory ~ Informational Text Critical Thinking Activity
This is a polished, graphic, new, single page 2013 PDF for critical thinking analysis of a 1998 article in Scientific American on the arguments and science behind left vs. right brain or brain lateralization. The question set could be addressed individually by students, in small collaborative groups, or as a whole group Q and A discussion to inspire problem-solving and critical thinking on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psych/brain studies.
I have found this to be a highly thought-provokin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Establishing Correlation: Writing A Survey (Psychology Activity)
This graphic, detailed PDF printable survey activity provides the step-by-step process by which students will begin to utilize correlational surveying methodologies. I have included some examples as well as detailed guided questions to aid students in developing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting their survey and findings, as well as moving to a potential connection to the scientific method, to consider moving from a correlation to a potential causation (at your discretion). Students will co
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 137-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing social studies themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essent
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5th - 12th
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Did My Bill Pass? – A Model Legislature
Hot off the press and updated for the 118th Congress (January 2023), your class can have fun being Congress!This activity gives your students the chance to be Congress while watching the actual Congress at work.I’ve used the newly apportioned House districts (after the 2020 census) and the current line-up of Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate so your class can closely approximate the makeup of the actual Congress.The students elect congressional leaders, represent regions of the U
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to answer different document based questions in History. CARDS (DBQ)
In a bid to help our students think more like historians we set them various styles of question based on the sources in DBQs. These helpful little cards can be used with any document or piece of evidence in history. They work for any time period and help our students to address real issues of provenance and purpose.I devised these initially to support the GCSE History students and to help prepare them for question types that might come up in their end of year exam. However, they they have been
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Law Related Education- Due Process
This unit lesson plan includes eight lessons that will take approximately 1-3 class periods each, and nine engaging activities guaranteed to get lawyers-to-be in your class arguing, debating, and advocating on behalf of the real and fictitious defendants that you will encounter in these lessons. Students will be reading real case law and case summaries, coming to terms with nuances in the law, advocating on behalf of clients and using case law analogy to support their arguments, and writing arg
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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See Me On Social FollowMe Back-to-School All About Me Social Media Activities
Slay back-to-school with our “Get to Know You” social media templates! Start back on the right track by having your students participate in these activities themed around current social media platforms. Gaining insight into your students' lives is a crucial component of creating a positive classroom climate and building relationships with those in your class. Fostering a welcoming environment inevitably yields greater success. Our “All About Me” activities are designed for upper elementary a
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Famous Americans U.S. History Mini-Research Paper w/ Rubric and Suggested Topics
It's a great way to pique student interest in American history! Here is a comprehensive mini-research assignment that will elicit integral material about people who have made a positive difference in U.S. culture and/or throughout the world. As they share their findings, classmates will be entertained and fascinated with important and interesting facts about those who helped to better our world. A list of possible subjects, as well as a detailed rubric, are included.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Orphan Trains - Placing Out in America
During the Industrial Revolution (1890-1920), the Progressive activists countered the capitalist exploitation of labor by fighting for reforms to benefit workers, health care and education. This lesson focuses on the experience of children, particularly foundling children, who were placed out in the American west during 1854-1929. Approximately 150,000 to 200,000 “orphaned” children were moved out west by the Children’s Aid Society and the eastern Foundling Hospitals. Once there, the children
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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And Justice for ... The Supremes' Greatest Hits (& Misses) 2021
Do you ever wonder what important issues the US Supreme Court decided this year? Well look no further … The project lets students work with 10 actual US Supreme Court (USSC) cases. The primary activity is an appellate court argument on this year’s most interesting case, Mahanoy School District v. B. L., a minor (A high school cheerleader posting a profanity-laced Snapchat). Some of your students will act as lawyers and argue the case, while other students act as justices. You have the option of
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9th - 12th
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Argument Composition unit
This comprehensive composition unit on argument is aligned with the common core learning outcomes and includes intensive instruction, critical thinking, problem solving, research and writing activities on the components of argument which include: logos, ethos, pathos, inductive and deductive logic, syllogisms, fallacies, composition analysis and writing. It has well over 20 hours of content and activities for your classroom. The materials include: an instructional PDF powerpoint, creative acti
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Daily Mind Builders: Science eBook - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 145-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing science-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential sk
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5th - 12th
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$$$ Is Speech – Citizens United v FEC
Four activities that teach students to research, analyze, and discuss issues about campaign fundraising and spending, and how money influences elections. 1) Students become Congress and write campaign finance legislation; 2) They run for president and role-play candidates, speech writers, pollsters, and the media; 3) in Moot Court, students argue the Citizens United case; using the excerpts from the actual US Supreme Courts case opinion; 4) They have a debate on the issues. The PDF Includes sub
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9th - 12th
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And Justice for ... The Supremes' Greatest Hits (2014)
Want your students to speak with confidence and be able to think on their feet? This project is designed to do just that. The project lets students work with 11 actual US Supreme Court (USSC) cases. A primary activity is an appellate court argument on the groundbreaking case, Obergefell v. Hodges (same-sex marriage). Some of your students will act as lawyers and argue the case, while other students act as justices. You have the option of having them portray the actual US Supreme Court Justices.*
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9th - 12th
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The Loch Ness Monster: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents.Their mission?To go to Loch Ness and discover what people are seeing? Is it a monster, or some kind of newly undiscovered species? Maybe it's an optical illusion or some kind of elaborate hoax.Students can "travel back in time" to any sight
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology Collaborative Research: The 5 Senses & Vestibular System
This is a detailed step-by-step, newly revised and graphic activity to be used in Psych I , II, or AP Psychology course in a unit on the five senses and biological foundations in Psychology, including the vestibular system. The activity could take 2-3 class periods, depending on the availability of research/resources, how much time you feel the students need for the collaborative research step as well as the amount of time you feel the require for the visual-creation step and preparing to presen
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Is Justice Blind or Political? – The Judicial Nomination Process
"I won the election, so I get to appoint the judges."The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices with “the advise and consent of the Senate.”This power has become increasing political with successive presidents appointing justices to their political liking: liberal or conservative. And the court nomination hearing have become exercises in political posturing by the senators.Is this the way it was supposed to be?Your students will become the Senate an
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9th - 12th
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And Justice for ... The Supremes' Greatest Hits (& Misses) / 2018 and 2019 Terms
Do you ever wonder what important issues the US Supreme Court (USSC) decided recently? Well look no further …The project lets students (and you) work with 12 actual USSC cases from the 2018 and 2019 terms. There are six important and interesting cases which include language from the majority and dissenting opinions. Some of your students will act as lawyers and argue the cases, while other students act as justices. You have the option of having them portray the actual US Supreme Court Justices.
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9th - 12th
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Psychology: Collaborative Scientific Experiment (Critical Thinking Activity)
This is a brand new, graphic and detailed 2013 PDF printable critical thinking and collaboration activity in a Psychology and/or Biology classroom. With this activity, students are provided step-by-step critical thinking questions with which they will create a scientific experiment to attempt establishing a causal relationship on paper only in your classroom. The objective here is to determine whether students are understanding the process by which psychologists create experiments to test hypoth
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Very First Amendment
The 1st AmendThis project has 6 lessons the explore the First Amendments important provisions:Free Speech, Free Press, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Religion and the Establishment Clause, and Redress of Grievances.They will be A) Creating a policy for handing use of schools by outside groups and what limitations on speech and religion they will allowB) Deciding how much government can help private schools without running afoul of the Establishment Clause.C) What are the limits for freedom of a
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9th - 12th
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Ace Critical Thinking for Success: ANALYTICAL Thinking
This file focuses on analytical thinking skills. It can help learners to develop an independent ability to conduct original analysis. The file aims to help learners achieve these:Understand the relevance and importance of analysis in decision-making and problem-solving. Know how to dig for key causes through thoughtful and deep analysis.Know how to design an ideal solution to target one key cause.Know how to present analysis products in an organized analysis essay. Specifically, the file covers
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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