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Critical thinking Common Core RI.11-12.1 resources
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #7, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period. In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a 23-minute podcast focused on shark attacks, including a story of survival and information on research
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8th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Escape Room
Looking for an exciting way to introduce the Salem Witch Trials to your students? This challenging lock box activity is designed to accompany history lessons on the Salem Witch Trials or The Crucible play. I love introducing The Crucible with this escape because it stirs students' interest in the accusations and evidence for the Salem trials. Premise: students have recently discovered an ancestor of theirs was the first person in Salem hanged for witchcraft. They want to know about her, and as
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Salem Witch Trials Escape - Digital & Print
The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Critical Thinking Activities, Cognitive Bias: Nonfiction Close Reading, TED Talk
Tired of students who are afraid to think for themselves?If your goal is to open your students’ minds, to get them to think critically, to help them become more receptive to new ideas, or to show them the importance of examining the evidence before jumping to conclusions, you’ll need this resource. These informative and engaging lessons on cognitive bias will challenge your students to consider fascinating questions about the way that the human brain works. Why is it that when people are faced w
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9th - 12th
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Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
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6th - 12th
Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
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8th - 12th
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Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Elevator Routine Mystery Activity
In this fun mystery activity, students have to solve a classic riddle: Why does a woman ride the elevator up to the 15th floor and then walk up to the 20th floor to get to her apartment? Practice critical thinking skills and follow the clues to find the answer.This is a PDF format perfect for printing and handing out to students to work on in groups. You can also get this activity in other formats: Click here for PowerPoint edition and Click here for Google Slides edition.Inside find:Teacher No
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Book vs Movie | Comparison Project for Movie Versions and Partner Movies
These no prep booklets of resources will help your students think more critically when comparing and contrasting a book with its movie counterpart, or a book with a partner movie. This product is also included in my High School Combo BUNDLE.Use this resource with ANY book that has a movie version, or with ANY movie you are connecting to a book study. That's two products in one!The activities cover plot, setting, culture, context, characterization, theme, and symbolism comparisons with critical a
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9th - 11th
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Distance Learning - AP Lang Identifying Tone Exercises
This 15 page resource WITH answer key is a highly effective means of teaching tone to advanced students. I use this with honors, AP and college students to build their skills through annotation and how to apply this knowledge to real rhetoric. There are two lengthy exercises. The first is annotation with 10 excerpts from various pieces of literature and non-fiction. The second offers eight close reading passages with application rewrites. Students develop skill and confidence through these ac
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Language and Composition Rhetoric Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Perfect Crime
In this engaging mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out how a woman killed her husband without anyone suspecting anything! In fact, it's unclear whether or not she did anything wrong at all? Can they follow the clues and use their critical thinking skills and reading strategies to figure it out!This is a PDF Printable copy that works well for a small group activity in a face-to-face classroom. Click here for the PowerPoint version. Or Click here for the Google Slides
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Gun violence argumentative passages critical thinking end of year social studies
GUN VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES, CRITICAL THINKING, DEBATEDo you want to address gun violence in the classroom but are not sure how to do it? This product explores how mental health issues are associated with gun violence. COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATE (#3) (GUN VIOLENCE & MENTAL HEALTH)My COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATES are excellent supplements to any class focusing on ethics, law, justice, argumentative writing, and debate, and they also work well as last-minute sub-plans or st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ralph Waldo Emerson UNIT - "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar"
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your students to transcendental thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works? This lesson on excerpts from "Self-Reliance,” "The American Scholar,“ and “Nature” will do just that!What's Included . . . ► Step-by-step instructions for each day.► Common Core English Standards aligned to daily tasks.► Understanding Transcendentalism group synthesis task.► Viewing guide for short biography clip suggestion (about 10 minutes) ► Bell Ringers► "Emerson or Lil Wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Bundle
Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices both utilizing evidence and line of argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument). It is structured as an investigation for students to explore how a Professor at an elite school is murdered and by whom. It includes a presentation, all the evidence (which
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9th - 12th
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Critical Thinking Activity: The Mystery of the Nighttime Kidnapping
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, students investigate who kidnapped a CEO from his home in the middle of the night. Can your students work together to follow the clues, use their critical thinking skills and solve the mystery!This is a PDF printable version which works well in the classroom, with students working in groups. Click here for the PowerPoint Slides version of Nighttime Kidnapping.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery? It's a great warm-up, critical
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Empty Bank
In this fun mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, students have to solve an odd riddle--why did 10 police drive up to a bank and surround it in the middle of the night, even though no one was inside! Can your students follow the clues to figure out what happened? They'll need to use logic and close reading to figure it out! The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class or in online classes, distance learning, or remote learning (whatever we're c
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Critical Thinking HS ELA, Second Amendment, Gun Control, Argumentative Passages
Critical Thinking HS ELA, Second Amendment, Gun Control, Argumentative PassagesNY State Rifle and Pistol Ass., Inc., et al. v. Bruen (2022)Do you want to help your students understand one of the most contentious topics facing us today?The Second Amendment is a hot topic, and teachers must be prepared to discuss it in the classroom. With the recent Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership, it’s now more important than ever to give your students access to accurate and up-to-date information that they
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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An Unrelated Murder: Critical Thinking Mystery Printable Activity
In this engaging mystery activity that gets students using their critical thinking, skills, students have to guess why a man murdered a woman when police can't find any connection between them. Can your students think logically and use reading strategies to follow the clues and find the motive for the mysterious murder!This is a printable PDF edition designed to be used in the classroom for pair work or in small groups. However, it can also be adapted for individual work or worked through with t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Election 2024, Nonfiction reading comprehension high school, middle school, AP™
Election 2024, Nonfiction reading comprehension high school, middle school, AP™If you're looking for a way to engage your high school students, then these NINE FAMOUS CASES are a great place to start! Each case study provides an overview of the facts, legal arguments, and outcomes, along with STUDENT QUESTIONS and BACKGROUND INFORMATION to help you get the most out of your class discussion. And for teachers looking for extra guidance, there are also TEACHER NOTES and SUGGESTED ANSWERS included.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Salem Witch Trials Escape - Digital & Print
Looking for an exciting way to introduce the Salem Witch Trials to your students? This challenging escape activity is designed to accompany history lessons on the Salem Witch Trials or The Crucible play. Starting The Crucible unit or the Puritan time period with this escape will stir students' interest in the accusations and evidence for the Salem Witch Trials. This escape has well-designed clues to engage your students and get them thinking critically.Premise: students have recently discovered
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Halloween Logical Puzzle: Light as a Feather
In this fun logic puzzle mystery, students investigate who killed a party-goer during a game of Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. It was dark and everyone was in costume. No one knows who the killer was, but using the clues provided your students need to figure out which person was wearing which costume and where they were seated. Once they apply their critical thinking and reasoning skills, they'll know who killed Aiyisha!This is the PDF Printable edition. Click here for a PowerPoint Slides
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
ENGLISH | MLK Speech: "I Have a Dream" The Power of Rhetoric - Speech Analysis
This lesson allows students read, explore, and analyze Dr. Martin Luther King's speech during the March on Washington during the civil rights movement. Students examine his speech, as he uses metaphors, poems, famous quotes, and hymns to convey a powerful message as he calls for equality and freedom in one of the most iconic speeches in American history.Students use a graphic organizer as they go through the document. Allowing for question prompts, help with vocabulary, and background informati
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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