Problem-Service Development – Applying Critical Thinking
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.25, “Applying Critical Thinking”) teaches high school students a four-step strategy for thinking critically and the attitudes/dispositions that support critical thinking. Students develop a critical thinking strategy, explore engagement, maturity, and innovativeness dispositions, and apply skills through a veal/animal-welfare reading activity, a disposition self-assessment, and FFA/SAE extension activities.
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
- Resources
- Hughes, William. Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills. Boston, Massachusetts. Broadview Press, 2000. The National Council for Agricultural Education. Animal Welfare Instructional Materials. 1995. National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings materials, 2003. Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan. Becoming a Critical Thinker. Boston, Massachusetts. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Webster's Universal College Dictionary. New York, New York. Random House Inc., 1997.
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NS.9-12.1Science as Inquiry — Develop understanding of scientific inquiry.