Description: This colorful 384-page book engages students in the study of critical thinking. It lays a strong foundation in the important cognitive skills necessary for critical thinking, such as comprehension, analysis, evaluation, construction, creativity, and communication. Through fun and concrete activities—including Thought Experiments, Student Polls, Practice Sessions, Games and Puzzles, Predictions, and Important Takeaways—students explore topics essential to critical thinking, gaining tools that will help them apply critical thinking directly to their own lives. Additional individual and group activities are included to reinforce student learning as they explore topics such as: • The Basics of Critical Thinking • Obstacles to Critical Thinking • Evaluating Evidence • Creative Problem-Solving • Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Doublespeak • Arguments • Informal Fallacies • Advertising • Eyewitness Testimony, Direct & Circumstantial Evidence

Series: Practical Critical Thinking

Author: Catherine Connors-Nelson

Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co

Grade: G9-12up

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE

Keywords: Critical thinking; Problem-Solving; Reasoning; Logic; Arguments;