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Critical thinking Common Core RI.8.9 resources
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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How to Identify Bias Online Activities Digital Literacy
Just what you need to teach bias! This print and digital resource has everything you need to teach this valuable critical thinking skill in our online world. Ready to use -- includes websites, questions, student notes, practice, and more!Here's what teachers are saying about my digital literacy resources:"Big packet full of so many options. Really gets kids thinking. Thanks for creating exactly what I was looking for.""Great resource to teach students about possible bias when they are rese
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5th - 10th
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Digital Escape Room: Escape the Misinformation Newsroom, Real News vs Fake News
Want to help your middle and high school ELA students learn how to avoid bias, consipiracies, and misinformation online? Escape the Newsroom is a FUN and meaningful activity that helps students to apply two methods of evaluating online sources in a hands-on way. Students learn the SIFT method (Stop, Investigate, Find trusted coverage, Trace to the original) and the CRAP method (Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose). They apply the methods to various websites--some which are completely r
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7th - 10th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
Online Scavenger Hunt - Learning and Practicing Research Skills Online
This is the update of my PDF file project for learning to refine search skills. This file allows you to share a Google Slides to your students from Drive or Google Classroom. It is editable by students and can be turned into you for marking when completed. This scavenger hunt is one of two digital and editable online projects that I am selling. If you want to teach basic skills for Grade 2 - 5 students, please take a look at my other scavenger hunt. This project helps students learn about and pr
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4th - 8th
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
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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Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere": Poem, Worksheet, and Answer Key
Students can "take a ride" to gain a perspective of this famous patriot as well as a variety of poetry characteristics (alliteration, figurative language, mood ) as they answer 15 relevant questions. It's all in one: the poem (with numbered verses for easy access to lines), the worksheet, and a detailed answer key. This printable is so versatile that it can be used as an individual, pair, or group assignment as well as an in-class or homework assignment.
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5th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Debating Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sports
This worksheet is designed to engage students in critical thinking and reflection on the topic of transgender participation in sports. It includes comprehension questions that assess understanding of two contrasting articles discussing the issue. Additionally, it features critical reasoning questions that encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and apply the information presented in the articles. The "Connect to Self" question prompts students to relate the content to their own values and exp
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Persuasive Cereal Box Project (Rhetorical Appeals)
This project/activity is a super fun way to get students practicing with rhetorical appeals and persuasive strategies. This Google Doc comes with project description, a checklist of requirements for the cereal box, tips for designing a cereal box, a grading checklist with scoring breakdown, and blank cereal box templates. This project can be completed with real cereal boxes for a hands-on approach or with the templates for a quicker activity to reinforce persuasive techniques.
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6th - 12th
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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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Informational Text Analysis Task Cards | Guided Reading for any Non Fiction Text
Are you looking for a way to help you students dig in to a non-fiction text in a way that will promote long term comprehension? You've come to the right place. I use these cards in a variety of ways in my classroom and have witnessed them to be effective time and time again. Once while using these cards, I had a student say "I don't understand the point. Why do Have to write down the numbers? The only numbers I see are dates." I responded, "Great! Document those dates on your graphic organizer!
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5th - 12th
Social Media Critical Thinking for Google Classroom
Social media teaching activities and games. These lesson activities focus on critical thinking and the use of social media. It includes a variety of activities to make the user think about their digital footprint, moral issues, online safety, ethical responsibilities, the do' and don'ts along with the negative consequences associated with negative posts. An excellent link to social emotional learning as well.PDF Version also available here.Includes: Surveys, Activities for Social Media Apps, 22
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6th - 10th
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Building an Empire
Building a New Empire is an Inquiry-Based Learning opportunity your students will remember for years to come! Absorbed in cooperative work as they take on professional roles and perspectives, your students will uncover the trends in growing empires and use that knowledge to construct their own strong empire. Students will view the development of their empire through various lenses. The task force consists of a:1. Geographer2. Economist3. Sociologist4. Government Advisor5. Commander-in-ChiefOnce
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6th - 10th
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Ad Hominem Doodle Notes
Ad Hominem Notes- These doodle style notes can be used as an introduction to the fallacy, as a stand-alone mini-lesson or as a review. Included:- Blank student notes- Blank student notes with people doodle- Teachers sample answer key with definitions and additional sketchesDetails covered in the note-taking- Definition of Ad Hominem- Reasoning for usage- Colloquial names for the fallacy- 2 major types (circumstantial & abusive)- Tu Quoque examplePlease email me here with any questions or c
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6th - 12th
⭐Critical Thinking Internet Search Activity: Distance Learning Google Classroom™
THIS PRODUCT is an old version. It will be unlisted shortly. I HAVE CONVERTED THIS PRODUCT INTO A DOWNLOADABLE ZIP FOLDER TO MAKE IT EASIER TO USE. The latest version can be found here. This product was originally released as a TpT Online Resource (Google Drive Resource): https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Critical-Thinking-Internet-Search-Activity-Distance-Learning-Google-Classroom-5467012The current version of this product is a TpT Digital Download (ZIP Folder Resource): https://www.t
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6th - 9th
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STEM Designer: Solar Powered Vehicles
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning to use with Google ClassroomStudents become solar designers in this interactive STEM webquest that guides critical thinking and collaboration within the topics of solar energy and engineering. Working in teams, students choose to learn about solar planes, cars, boats, or rovers and use what they have learned to design their own model of a solar powered vehicle. WebQuest project-based learning teaches children how to use essential skills for obtain
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Evaluating Online Sources: Credible vs. Untrustworthy Websites
In this activity, students will consider six different websites and must decide whether they are credible or not. These decisions will be made through the use of a checklist that awards/ takes away points based on the presence or lack of certain criteria in the website (has an author, does not have external links, etc.). This is a great, engaging, and low-pressure activity to help refresh, review, or introduce media literacy!This download comes with:- Links to six websites for students to consid
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7th - 12th
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Frankenstein Activity | Designer Babies Socratic Seminar Lesson | Stems | Rubric
Transform them into little college students. Capture their imaginations. Perfect before, during or after Frankenstein. Teach them how to generate thought-provoking, open-ended questions in preparation for their student-led Socratic Seminar. No prep needed. Packed with engaging slides, writing tips, examples, questions, leveled text sets, graphic organizer, evaluation tools, and more. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Happy teaching!Note: Model close reading, annotation, and note-taking
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7th - 10th
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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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6Cs Critical Thinking v2.8 (Folder 4 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom™
This is folder 4 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Critical Thinking unit.⭐ SEP 26, 2021 Version 2.8 UPDATE: There are a lot of files in this product. It can be confusing.Look at the lesson plans for FREE here in FOLDER 5.WATCH this video. It explains how to get the files you need for each lesson.NEW! When you buy the main 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT product, you get a FILE TABLE of CONTENTS (PDF). It has one-click copy links to help you quickly find each file you need for a lesson.If you have an
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6th - 10th
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6Cs Critical Thinking v2.8 (Folder 1 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom™
This is folder 1 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Critical Thinking unit.⭐ SEP 26, 2021 Version 2.8 UPDATE: There are a lot of files in this product. It can be confusing.Look at the lesson plans for FREE here in FOLDER 5.WATCH this video. It explains how to get the files you need for each lesson.NEW! When you buy the main 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT product, you get a FILE TABLE of CONTENTS (PDF). It has one-click copy links to help you quickly find each file you need for a lesson.If you have an
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6th - 10th
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6Cs Critical Thinking v2.8 (Folder 2 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom™
This is folder 2 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Critical Thinking unit.⭐ SEP 26, 2021 Version 2.8 UPDATE: There are a lot of files in this product. It can be confusing.Look at the lesson plans for FREE here in FOLDER 5.WATCH this video. It explains how to get the files you need for each lesson.NEW! When you buy the main 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT product, you get a FILE TABLE of CONTENTS (PDF). It has one-click copy links to help you quickly find each file you need for a lesson.If you have an
Grades:
6th - 10th
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