Critical thinking study guides for staff

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Word Problems

The term 'lateral thinking' was coined by Edward de Bono to denote a problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles. Sometimes a problem seems difficult or insoluble because our assumptions about it are wrong.This resource provides tens of puzzles that involve thinking out of the box and critical thinking skills to solve problems. This resource is an excellent tool to develop the critical thinking skills and involve all the students in these engaging ac

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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, Activities, Assessment

DEDUCTIVE REASONING / INDUCTIVE REASONING / SYLLOGISM / FALSE PREMISE

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Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Philosophy

This resource is a guide to the students who start studying Reasoning and Logic. It introduces the basic concepts of inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. Through simple examples, this resource makes the readers delve into the world of logic and reasoning.

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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

Writing a Critical Review / A Guide with a Sample Essay

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Critical Thinking, Writing, Writing-Essays

This resource is a guide to the writing of a critical review for a book, a chapter, a journal article. This resource guides the learner so that he can present a fair and a reasonable evaluation of the selected text. This resource also includes a sample critical essay with all the parts of a good critical essay.

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, Activities, Movie Guides

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Puzzles and Lateral Thinking Problems Booklet

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Word Problems

This booklet contains a selection of lateral thinking problems and some fill-in-the-blanks puzzles – useful particularly for groups where the members are reluctant to participate in silly games.You could run each fill-in-the-blanks puzzle as a competition, offering a small prize for the first person to get all the answers. Or you could use it as a team-building exercise, with a treat for the whole group when they manage between them to complete the puzzle.All the answers are provided at the end

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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, Activities, Assessment

Bundle of 5 - Tutorial & PP - Evaluating an Argument: JFK’s Inaugural Address

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This product is a bundle of 5 which includes 4 tutorials on President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address and 1 stand-alone power point presentation which summarizes the life of President Kennedy. The bundle contains 4 Student Study Guides and 4 Teacher’s Answer Keys on the various aspects of Kennedy’s address. Each of the 4 tutorials can be presented as a single presentation or as a combination of all 4, however the tutorials are lengthy. Each of the tutorials accompany the Florida educational

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 4 - Tutorials & 1 PP - Remembering of & Indifference to the Holocaust

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, U.S. History

This product is a bundle of 4 which includes 3 tutorials and 1 stand-alone power point presentation on the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. Tutorials Parts 1 & 2 are designed to help the student understand the Holocaust whereas in Tutorial 3, students will be taught to remember the Holocaust and consider the cost of indifference as they read selected excerpts from texts written by Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. The power point presentation, Genocide in the 20th Century - The Nazi Holocaust

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7th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 4 - Tutorials & PP - Evaluating the Structure of an Argument – Pts 1-3

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This product is a bundle of 4 products which includes 3 tutorials in which students learn what it means to be an American by analyzing a speech delivered by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, in 1941 and 1 stand-alone power point presentation on Isolationism prior to World War II. The tutorials contain 3 Student Study Guides and 3 Teacher’s Answer Keys on the various aspects of Icke’s speech. Each of the 3 tutorials can be presented as a single presentation or as a combination

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 3 - Tutorials - Evaluating the Structure of an Argument, Parts 1-3

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This product is a bundle of 3 tutorials in which students learn what it means to be an American by analyzing a speech delivered by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, in 1941. The bundle contains 3 Student Study Guides and 3 Teacher’s Answer Keys on the various aspects of Icke’s speech. Each of the 3 tutorials can be presented as a single presentation or as a combination of all 3. Each of the tutorials accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: What Is an American? E

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 3 - Tutorial & PP - Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream" - Parts 1 & 2

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Poetry

This product is a bundle of 3 products which includes 2 tutorials on analyzing the words of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “A Dream within a Dream”- Beauty and Word Choice, Parts 1 & 2 and a stand-alone power point presentation on the life of Edgar Alan Poe. There is a total of 33-pages the tutorials (16-pages) in the Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheets and (17-pages) the Teacher’s Answer Keys. The power point presentation contains 26 slides and provides excellent background on the person of

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Basic Math, Critical Thinking, Mathematics

DR. GERHARD'S MATHEMATICAL REASONING FOR STUDENTS,TEACHERS,SAT,GRE,COMMON CORE

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Dr Gerhard

The book is written for all who never liked mathematics. It is based on more than 40 years of research with individual students. It is guaranteed that students-- teachers and others--will improve their ability in mathematics after reading or/and working through the text. To maintain the original form of research by the author, which consisted in handwriting personalized books for several hundred students, the main part of the book is a mathematical--hopefully calligraphic--essay with many freeha

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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, Centers

Success In School Rhymes Classroom Wall Collage (You Print) Posters

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Crush School

Classroom Wall Collage designed to promote effective, research-based, active learning strategies. Consists of 6 categories:Learn Actively (Active Learning Strategies to avoid passive learning)Mistakes Are What It Takes to Learn (Promoting a classroom culture of making and learning from mistakes and why such learning is effective)Don’t Junk It, Chunk It (How to use the brain chunking technique)Make Practice Smart (How to use smart and intentional study strategies instead of regurgitating and cram

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Critical Thinking, Life Skills, Study Skills

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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Study Guides, Printables, Posters

Bundle of 4 - Tutorials - Exaluating an Argument: Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

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This product is a bundle of 4 tutorials on President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. The bundle contains 4 Student Study Guides and 4 Teacher’s Answer Keys on the various aspects of Kennedy’s address. Each of the four tutorials can be presented as a single presentation or as a combination of all 4, however the tutorials are lengthy. Each of the tutorials accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: Evaluating an Argument, JFK’s Inaugural Address – Parts 1 - 4, with Florida Benchmar

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 3 - Tutorial & PP - Analyzing & Evaluating the Gettysburg Address

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This product is a bundle of three products consisting of 2 tutorials and 1 stand-alone power point presentation on analyzing and evaluating the Gettysburg Address by using Lincoln’s own word and delivery style, and the student’s analysis of the text of the address and video accounts on the subject. There is a total of 35-pages the tutorials (17-pages) in the Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheets and (18-pages) the Teacher’s Answer Keys and 23 slides in the power point presentation. Each of t

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Tutorial - What Is an American? Evaluating the Structure of an Argument - Pt 3

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This tutorial, What Is an American? Evaluating the Structure of an Argument - Pt 3 is the third of a 3-part series which examines what it means to be an American by analyzing a speech delivered by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, in 1941. It comprises an 11-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and a 12-page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: What Is an American? Evaluating the Structure of an Argument - Part Three with Florid

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8th - 11th, Adult Education, Staff

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Also included in: Bundle of 3 - Tutorials - Evaluating the Structure of an Argument, Parts 1-3

Bundle of 2 - Tutorial & PP - The Cost of Indifference - The Holocaust

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This product is a bundle of 2 which includes 1 tutorial and 1 stand-alone power point presentation. In this tutorial students will remember the Holocaust and consider the cost of indifference as they read selected excerpts from texts written by Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. It comprises a 10-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and a 10-page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: The Cost of Indifference: Determining the Central Idea with Florida

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Bundle of 3 - Tutorials - Remembering of & Indifference to the Nazi Holocaust

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This product is a bundle of 3 tutorials on the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. Tutorials Parts 1 & 2 are designed to help the student understand the Holocaust whereas in Tutorial 3, students will be taught to remember the Holocaust and consider the cost of indifference as they read selected excerpts from texts written by Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. There is a total of 46-pages in the Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheets (23-pages) and the Teacher’s Answer Keys (23-pages). Each of th

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7th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Tutorial - Evaluating a Speaker’s Effectiveness - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

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This tutorial focuses on how to evaluate a speaker’s effectiveness by reviewing Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The tutorial: Hallowed Words: Evaluating a Speaker’s Effectiveness comprises an 8-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and an 8-page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: Tutorial: Hallowed Words: Evaluating a Speaker’s Effectiveness with Florida Benchmark Standard LAFS.1112.SL.1.3.In this tutorial students will be required to exami

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Also included in: Bundle of 2 - Hallowed Words: Evaluating a Speaker’s Effectiveness - Tutori & PP

Tutorial: Why Did the Author Write That? 1st & 2nd hand Accounts of Valley Forge

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, U.S. History

In this tutorial, students will analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event using Valley Forge as an example. It comprises a 7-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and a 7-page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompany the Florida educational resources tutorial: Why Did the Author Write That? Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of Valley Forge with Florida Benchmark Standard LAFS.5.RI.2.6.Students will be required to analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important s

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4th - 7th, Adult Education, Staff

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Tutorial - LA - Evaluating an Argument: JFK’s Inaugural Address, Part 3

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This tutorial is Part 3 of 4 tutorials on President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. It comprises an 11-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and an 11 page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompany the Florida educational re1-pasources tutorial: Evaluating an Argument, JFK’s Inaugural Address - Part 3 with Florida Benchmark Standard: LAFS.910.RI.1.1 In Part 3, students will read more of Kennedy's speech and identify a smaller claim in this section of his speech. They will also evaluate this

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7th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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Also included in: Bundle of 4 - Tutorials - Exaluating an Argument: Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Bundle of 2 - Hallowed Words: Evaluating a Speaker’s Effectiveness - Tutori & PP

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This product is a bundle of 2 which includes 1 tutorial and 1 stand-alone power point presentation. The tutorial is a lesson plan that teaches the students how to evaluate a speaker’s effectiveness by reviewing Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” The power point presentation is on the Gettysburg Address itself and is included to provide background material for the tutorial. The tutorial comprises an 8-page Student Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and an 8-page Teacher’s Answer Key to accompa

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8th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

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