Basics of Critical Thinking
The Basics of Critical Thinking from the Critical Thinking Company teaches critical thinking skills and the meaning of critical thinking through simple explanations, diagrams, and engaging activities. Students learn argument forms, identifying and evaluating evidence, and helpful skills for life. Contents include finding evidence, inferring, facts, opinions, Venn diagrams, logical connectives, advertising, agreements, contracts, common errors in reasoning, and more. 146 classroom-reproducible pages with a line-listed answer key included. Grades 4-9.
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The Basics of Critical Thinking
The Critical Thinking Company offers a resource that not only imparts critical thinking skills, but also explains what critical thinking is and what it entails. The material is presented in a simple and engaging manner via diagrams, brief activities, and easy-to-understand explanations. With this resource, students can learn how to identify and evaluate argument forms as well as evidence by developing helpful skills that they can apply throughout their lives.
The contents of this resource focus on identifying evidence, making inferences, distinguishing between facts, opinions, and probable truths, Venn diagrams, logical connectives, advertising, agreements and contracts, common errors in reasoning, and more.
This softcover resource includes 146 classroom-reproducible pages and an answer key that is line-listed. It is ideal for students in grades 4-9.
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Subject: Electives
Brand: Critical Thinking Company
Publisher Date: 03/01/2015
Author: Michael Baker
UPC: 9781601445070
Pages: 146
