Critical+Thinking

**Everywhere you look, you see advertisements—not just on TV and online, but on buses, buildings, and scoreboards. Many ads target kids ages 8 to 12. Do your students have the critical thinking skills to understand ads, what they’re saying, and what they want kids to do? [|Admongo] - Find resources** To help you equip your students with these valuable skills

The Three Little Pigs - Teaching perspective / listening to all sides of the story

[|Six vinage inspired animations on critical thinking]

Australian outfit Bridge 8 , who have the admirable mission of devising “creative strategies for science and society,” and animator James Hutson have created six fantastic two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at kids ages 8 to 10 but also designed to resonate with grown-ups.

[|Fact V Opinion]- teaching children to be critical thinkers

=Do you believe all you see and read? Do our students? =

[|Flying Penguins]- video

[|Bogus Websites] - How do you check to see information is real?

[|Evaluating Websites] - learn how to evaluate a website

[|The CRAP test] - a memorable way to look for what’s crap and what’s not

==[|Truth from Fiction] - Did you know that aliens cause global warming? [|Aliens cause global warming] ==

Or that velcro is a crop that grows in California? [|Velcro crops under challenge]

Or that there is a species of octopus that lives in a tree? [|Save the endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus]

They're all true. They must be true since I found them all on the internet.

[|The Dog Island] - Free Forever

[|Ten Biggest Misconceptions Learned in School] - Do we ever challenge stories we hear to evaluate their origins?

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