HS.25 Applying Critical Thinking (PowerPoint)
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.25, “Applying Critical Thinking”) teaches high school students a four-step strategy for critical thinking and the dispositions—engagement, maturity, and innovativeness—needed to demonstrate it. Students develop and apply a critical thinking strategy, complete a Critical Thinking Disposition Assessment, and practice evaluating arguments and evidence (including a veal-production reading activity).
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Develop a critical thinking strategy.
- Describe the attitudes (dispositions) which allow the demonstration of critical thinking.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Transparencies
- Overhead projector
- Assortment of markers
- Copies of HS.25.Assess—one per student
- Copies of HS.25.AS.A—one per student
- Index cards
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- J1: Think critically.
- Key Terms
- Argument; Evidence; Persuasion; Topic sentence; Reason; Valid; Variable
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NS.9-12.1Science as Inquiry — Develop understanding of scientific inquiry.