# Thinking - Critical

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### KEY 

📽 Video      📜 Worksheet      🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine     🔗 Website / Link

### Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems

[Visible Thinking Routine - See Think Wonder](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/See%20Think%20Wonder_2.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[How to increase your powers of observation](http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/02/how-to-incease-your-powers-of-observation/) 🔗🤔📜

[Using a forest setting to learn to carefully observe and question](http://ecosystems.psu.edu/youth/sftrc/lesson-plans/forestry/6-8/using-forest-setting) 🔗🤔📜

[How to observe people](http://www.wikihow.com/Observe-People) 🔗🤔📜

[Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Question%20Starts_0.pdf)🔗🤔📜

### Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument

[BrainPop Video and Quiz on Organizing your thoughts](https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/prewritingorganizingyourthoughts/) 🔗🤔📜📽

[Visible Thinking Routine - What Makes You Say That?](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/What%20Makes%20You%20Say%20That_1.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions](https://quizlet.com/205974779/facts-vs-opinions-flash-cards/) 🔗🤔

[Visible Thinking Routine - Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate_0.pdf)🔗🤔📜

[Planning Research for Influencing](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/620756/rg-planning-research-influencing-diagram-colour-en.pdf?sequence=3) 🔗🤔📜

[Reading Power - Adrienne Gear](http://www.readingpowergear.com/) 🔗🤔📜

### Recognize unstated assumptions and bias

[Test yourself for hidden bias](http://www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-bias) 🔗🤔📜

[Visible Thinking Routine - Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate_0.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[Confirmation and Other Biases](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/facing-ferguson-news-literacy-digital-age/confirmation-and-other-biases) 🔗🤔📜

[Street Calculus](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/image/street-calculus) 🔗🤔📜

[Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions](https://quizlet.com/205974779/facts-vs-opinions-flash-cards/)  🔗🤔

[Weed Out Propaganda - Poster and Activity (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/weed-out-propaganda-mlbp/) 🔗🤔📜

[Evidence: Do the facts hold up? - activity which has students check accuracy in a news article (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/evidence-do-the-facts-hold-up-mlbp/) 🔗🤔📜

[Source: Can I Trust the Creator? Activity (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/source-can-i-trust-the-creator-mlbp/) 🔗🤔📜

[Video: Defining Confirmation Bias](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/defining-confirmation-bias) 📽

[Media Literacy Maven Video: Confirmation Bias](https://newseumed.org/artifact/media-literacy-maven-video-confirmation-bias/) 📽

[Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhLmkrN0-I)📽 

[Online Advertising: Crash Course Media Literacy #7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmRcoJZRXEY) 📽

[Confronting Confirmation Bias](https://newseumed.org/activity/confronting-confirmation-bias-mlbp-aca/) 🔗🤔📜

[Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys: Crash Course Statistics #10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-fIpB4D50) 📽

[24 Cognitive Biases That Are Warping Your Perception of Reality](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/24-cognitive-biases-warping-reality/) 🔗🤔

### Interpret data

[TED Ed: How to spot a misleading graph](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-spot-a-misleading-graph-lea-gaslowitz) 🔗🤔📜

[Weed Out Propaganda - Poster and Activity (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/weed-out-propaganda-mlbp/) 🔗🤔📜

[Have students interpret data from the World Health Organisation](https://www.who.int/) 🔗🤔📜

[Creating Killer Facts and Graphics](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/253013/ml-guideline-creating-killer-facts-graphics-221112-en.pdf?sequence=17) 🔗🤔📜

[Planning Research for Influencing](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/620756/rg-planning-research-influencing-diagram-colour-en.pdf?sequence=3) 🔗🤔📜

### Evaluate evidence and arguments

[TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/5-tips-to-improve-your-critical-thinking-samantha-agoos) 🔗🤔📜📽

[Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhLmkrN0-I)📽

[Evidence: Do the facts hold up - activity which has students check accuracy in a news article (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/evidence-do-the-facts-hold-up-mlbp/) 🔗🤔📜

[Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions](https://quizlet.com/205974779/facts-vs-opinions-flash-cards/) 🔗🤔

[C.A.R.S. Checklist](http://novella.mhhe.com/sites/0079876543/student_view0/research_center-999/research_papers30/conducting_web-based_research.html) 🔗🤔📜

[TED Ed: Why facts don't convince people (and what you can do about it)](https://ed.ted.com/featured/hI9YSFHW) 🔗🤔📜📽

[TED Ed: Not all scientific studies are created equal - David H. Schwartz](http://ed.ted.com/lessons/not-all-scientific-studies-are-created-equal-david-h-schwartz#review) 🔗🤔📜📽

### Recognize and evaluate propositions

[TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/5-tips-to-improve-your-critical-thinking-samantha-agoos) 🔗🤔📜📽

### Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations

[Visible Thinking Routine - Explanation Game](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Explanation%20Game_1.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking](https://ed.ted.com/lessons/5-tips-to-improve-your-critical-thinking-samantha-agoos) 🔗🤔📜📽

[What Makes You Say That? - The Artful Thinking Palette](http://pzartfulthinking.org/?page_id=2) 🔗🤔

[Healthy Skepticism: Teaching Students to Use Claim Testers](https://blog.bighistoryproject.com/2017/09/27/using-claim-testers/) 🔗🤔📜

### Test generalizations and conclusions

[A thought provoking video about racism in New York. Little Things are Big: Watch the Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLTEZVmJ6-E) 📽

### Revise understanding based on new information and evidence

[321 Bridge Thinking Routine](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/3-2-1%20Bridge_0.pdf) 🔗🤔

### Evaluate and manage risk

[Anonymous Sources in Our Daily News](https://newseumed.org/activity/anonymous-sources-in-daily-news-mlbp/)  🔗🤔📜

### Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions

[Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Question%20Starts_0.pdf) 🔗🤔

### Consider ideas from multiple perspectives

[Facing History & Ourselves - The curriculum focusses on tackling stereotypes and understanding a range of views and opinions. Their curriculum covers difficult issues including the Holocaust and Racism issues in America](http://info.facinghistory.org/psa?utm_campaign=PSA%20Campaign\&utm_content=Eyes\&utm_medium=social\&utm_source=youtube) 🔗🤔📜📽

[Visible Thinking Routine - Circle of Viewpoints](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Circle%20of%20Viewpoints_0.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[Newspaper Map](https://newspapermap.com/) 🔗

### Develop contrary or opposing arguments

[Take part in a debate, using resources from Debatabase](https://idebate.org/debatabase) 🔗🤔📜

[BrainPop Video and Quiz - Debates ](https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/debate/)🔗🤔📜📽📽

[Facing History: Barometer](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/barometer-taking-stand-controversial-issues) 🔗🤔📜

[Visible Thinking Routine - What Makes You Say That? ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/What%20Makes%20You%20Say%20That_1.pdf)🔗🤔

### Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions

[MYP Design Cycle!](http://mypdesign.weebly.com/design-cycle.html)  🔗

### Identify obstacles and challenges

[Building a Metacognitive Classroom](https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-metacognitive-classroom?utm_source=Edutopia+Newsletter\&utm_campaign=ea02675fab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_041118_enews_buildingameta\&utm_medium=email\&utm_term=0_f72e8cc8c4-ea02675fab-79222667) 🔗🤔

### Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues

[Phet Simulations](https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics) 🔗

### Identify trends and forecast possibilities

[A great podcast for forward thinking - "Masters of Scale: Handcrafted with Airbnb's Brian Chesky"](https://soundcloud.com/homaion/episode-31-airbnbs-brian?in=homaion/sets/masters-of-scale-prodmgmt) 📽

### Troubleshoot systems and applications

[Coding is a great way to teach, as they will have to debug and learn by making mistakes. Students will take part in coding through the Hour of Code (and also through ICT, Robotics and Design sessions)](https://hourofcode.com/us) 🔗🤔

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