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Online teaching resources 2 from TC © The Critical Thinking Consortium Your Partner benefits include . . . Lessons to teach subject matter though critical inquiry Images and documents to support inquiry teaching and learning Mini-lessons to embed tool development into any lesson © The Critical Thinking Consortium Hundreds of critical thinking lesson plans Subject areas include • English language arts • Fine arts • Geography • Health, Career, Family Studies • History • Mathematics • Science • Social studies, Civics, Law Targeted for K-12 © The Critical Thinking Consortium Every lesson •is a critical thinking lesson •embeds teaching of subject matter •explains how to enhance student thinking © The Critical Thinking Consortium A sample activity that enhances “comparing and contrasting” From the Critical Challenge: More alike or different © The Critical Thinking Consortium Two collections in one Canadian history • photographs • primary documents • secondary accounts Social studies and science • photographs In both collections • Teacher background notes • Inquiry question(s) for each set • Lesson plans © The Critical Thinking Consortium History Docs • 55 sets • organized around 11 topics © The Critical Thinking Consortium History Docs • Multiple sets within topics • Each set includes 1018 documents © The Critical Thinking Consortium Picture sets • 62 sets • organized around 11 topics © The Critical Thinking Consortium Picture Sets • • Multiple sets within topics Each set includes 10-14 images © The Critical Thinking Consortium ! ! ! Climate Change – Effects of climate change "#! ! $#! ! Picture Sets ! ! %#! Formats • online • downloadable to print • PowerPoint of entire set ! &#! ! ' #! ! ! ( #! ! ! ! ) #! ! Picture Sets (a sub-collection of Source Docs) © 2012 The Critical Thinking Consortium (www.tc2.ca) © The Critical Thinking Consortium Page 1 of 3 Tools for Thought • modular collection • embeds critical thinking tools in every subject area • targeted for grades 5-10; adaptable for earlier grades Formats • PDF • Interactive whiteboard • PowerPoint © The Critical Thinking Consortium Tools for Thought • 70 tools • “Basic tools” • “Tutorials” © The Critical Thinking Consortium Tools for Thought: Teacher lessons and student notes © The Critical Thinking Consortium Tools for Thought Support documents and videos available © The Critical Thinking Consortium Tools for Thought A sample activity that helps students differentiate point of view from opinion. How might the following people react to this photograph? a) a family hoping for a quiet day at the beach b) a local newspaper reporter c) a hot dog vendor at the beach d) an artist From the T4T: Finding another perspective © The Critical Thinking Consortium Assess ment fo r lea rning Printab le ervation s are ac Tools for Thought Sample interactive whiteboard lessons scale curate a Excelle nt Whiteb oard rubric nd relev ant. les My obs Rating rubric "look fo rs" ( describ e "exce llent") evidenc e for ra ting Not yet able Examp Printab le rating scale s November 17, 2010 to Investigate historical documents 2 My infe rences Printable data chart Excelle nt Make plausible inferences based on your observations. Reading around the document data chart Observations (Clues from the document) are plau "look fo rs" ( Inferences (What you conclude) Author: Report everything you can about the author of the document. sible an d imagi native. describ e "exce llent") evidenc e for ra ting Audience: Report everything you can about the intended audience for the document. Context: Report everything you can about where and when the document was created. Type of document: Report on the kind of document it is; e.g., diary, personal letter, legal document. Purpose: Report everything you can about the likely reason for creating the document. Extension activity Assessment © The Critical Thinking Consortium Not yet able Tools for Thought Develop self-regulated competence © The Critical Thinking Consortium For more support © The Critical Thinking Consortium To access the online resource collections and the professional learning library, take a moment to create your personal account. www.tc2.ca © The Critical Thinking Consortium © The Critical Thinking Consortium © The Critical Thinking Consortium © The Critical Thinking Consortium Professional learning resource library www.tc2.ca © The Critical Thinking Consortium