Grade(s): 9-12+
Pages: 376, color
Practical Critical Thinking engages students in the study of critical thinking. It lays a strong foundation in the important cognitive skills necessary for critical thinking, such as comprehension, analysis, evaluation, construction, creativity, and communication.
Through fun and concrete activities—including Thought Experiments, Student Polls, Practice Sessions, Games and Puzzles, Predictions, and Important Takeaways—students explore topics essential to critical thinking, filling their Critical Thinking Tool Box with tools that will help them as critical thinkers, and applying critical thinking directly to their own lives.
Additional individual and group activities are included to reinforce student learning as they explore topics such as:
- The Basics of Critical Thinking
- Obstacles to Critical Thinking
- Evaluating Evidence
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Doublespeak
- Arguments
- Informal Fallacies
- Advertising
- Eyewitness Testimony, Direct & Circumstantial Evidence
Teaching Support
The student book can be used with a detailed Teacher’s Manual which is sold separately. The Teacher’s Manual contains 68 pages of instructions and answers followed by 230 black and white pages of the same reproducible activities included in the student book. The Teacher's Manual does not contain the student notes and is not usable without the student book.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Questions, Practices, and Qualities of Critical Thinkers
Chapter 2: Facts, Claims of Fact, and Opinions
Chapter 3: Ambiguity, Descriptions, and Explanations
Chapter 4: Valid and Invalid Arguments
Chapter 5: Arguments Based on Claims
Chapter 6: Categorical Syllogisms
Chapter 7: Inductive Arguments
Chapter 8: Informal Fallacies
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