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critical thinking: Complex thinking based on the acquisition and evaluation of new knowledge. The focus of learning is the pursuit of logical conclusions drawn from facts and evidence. The goal is for students to develop skills that help them critically assess information and avoid indoctrination into received wisdom.
critical literacy: The ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.
NWREL model of thinking: A simplified version of Bloom's Taxonomy developed by the NorthWest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) in 1989. Levels of thinking in this model are recall, comparison, analysis, inference, and evaluation.
higher order thinking: Complex thinking that goes beyond basic recall of facts, such as evaluation and invention, enabling students to retain information and to apply problem-solving solutions to real-world problems.
North Carolina thinking skills: Model of thinking skills adopted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in 1994. Lists seven levels of thinking skills from simplest to most complex: knowledge, organizing, applying, analyzing, generating, integrating, and evaluating.

Critical thinking in science: This unit of inquiry-based lessons teaches eighth-grade students to utilize and develop critical thinking skills. Students will create testable questions; design and perform experiments; collect, organize, and analyze data; and use these results to decide on the next step in the scientific process.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Arts of persuasion: Strategies for teaching middle school students to think critically, analyze persuasive arguments, and use speaking and writing to persuade others.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Map skills and higher-order thinking: This series of articles looks at map skills as a kind of visual literacy, considering what maps are, how they're made, and the higher-order thinking skills students need to move from simply decoding maps to fully comprehending them.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Problem centered math: Why students must build their own understanding of mathematics if they are to be able to use it in the real world, and how teachers can guide them in doing so.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Why inquiry?: The rationale for using discovery learning methods in teaching science.

The Paideia Seminar: Active thinking through dialogue: This teacher training manual, provided by The National Paideia Center, provides a valuable set of resources for educators who want to begin using the Paideia approach.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Tobacco bag stringing: Educator's guide: Elementary lesson plans Elementary lesson plans based upon Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was, study primary source documents and visuals,...; Format: lesson plan

Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants: Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants."; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Critical thinking and art with The Snowy Day: This lesson will focus on the illustrations from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The students will describe what makes illustrations worthy of a Caldecott Award. In addition, the students will complete an art project that will allow for creative critical thinking to compliment the illustrations in the book.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills); By Caryn Levy.

Social Studies Methods: K-5 Model Lessons: In Preservice teacher education resources, page 2.3; Essential Standards History Critical Understandings: understanding change over time, narrative nature of history, sources of history, historical thinking, North Carolina history, United States History My...; Format: article/teacher's guide

It's an ad!: How do marketers target kids — and how can we teach kids to know the difference between advertising and fact? These websites provide strategies to build critical thinking skills for media literate kids.; By Melissa Thibault.

Primary source letters lesson plan: In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 1; This is one of a series of activities that will help educators use the Tobacco Bag Stringing project materials in their classrooms. Throughout the series students will learn about tobacco stringing, study primary source...; Format: lesson plan; By Pauline S. Johnson.

Mathematics Methods: K-5 Model Lessons: In Preservice teacher education resources, page 4.3; Common Core State Standards Counting and Cardinality Critical Understandings: number names, count sequence, comparing numbers Counting Fun (Grade K)...; Format: article/teacher's guide

Media Literacy: How do you know if something is true? How can you figure out if someone is trying to influence or sell to you? Put yourself in their shoes and consider the source! Check out this selection of websites from our Best of the Web.; Format: bibliography/help

Introduction to experimental design: In Critical thinking in science, page 2; Students will take the Pepsi-Coke Challenge and, at the same time, learn about the scientific method. While practicing their critical-thinking skills in an inquiry-based experiment, students will define and apply experimental design vocabulary . This lesson is written using the 5E learning model.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science); By Daniell DiFrancesca.

Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy: Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Social Studies Methods: 6-8 Model Lessons: In Preservice teacher education resources, page 2.4; Essential Standards History Critical Understandings: using historical thinking, expansion and decline of civilizations, modern societies, global interactions, North Carolina history, US history Name...; Format: article/teacher's guide

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity three: In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

North Carolina's physical and cultural geography: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3; In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Ecosystem problem solving: Students will apply their knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependence of plants and animals to creatively solve problems.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science); By Kelley Turner.

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