This Issue's Theme: Promoting Critical Thinking
This issue explores how teachers can use primary sources to build students’ critical thinking skills, preparing them for success in the 21st century.
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Primary Sources and Critical Thinking
In this feature article, the author links critical thinking and primary source-based instruction and reflects on how to successfully teach critical thinking using primary sources. -
Research and Current Thinking
Summaries of and links to online resources-articles, research reports, Web sites, and white papers-that provide research and current thinking relating to the issue's theme. -
Teacher Spotlight
Linda Egnatz, a high-school Spanish teacher in Frankfort, Illinois, uses primary sources to both promote critical thinking and deepen content knowledge. -
Learning Activity – Elementary Level
In this activity, students use critical thinking skills to analyze and compare two versions of an important national symbol: the American flag. -
Learning Activity – Secondary Level
Students will practice higher-order thinking skills through this activity by analyzing issues addressed in historical and contemporary political cartoons and using research evidence to form their own opinions. -
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