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Anthropology

Human origins.
Edmonds Community College curriculum.
web.edcc.edu/anthr110/

Second critical thinking essay; Anthropology 110
An Anthropology writing assignment to develop and exercise critical thinking and research skills.
web.edcc.edu/anthr110/finalessay.html

Arts

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/amsing/thinking.html

The Museum as Time Capsule, Mongolian Example
The exotic artifacts in a museum are ideal objects with which students can practice the skills of observation and inference to make connections between the known and unknown.
www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000015.htm

Askeric Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan# AELP-CUR0001: An approach to current events.
Encourages the application of critical thinking skills to newspaper reports and network and local TV news reports.

Lesson Plan# AELP-CIV0001: An Approach to Teaching Religious Tolerance
www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Civics/CIV0001.html

Lesson Plan# AELP-INT0013: Critical thinking strategies.
Lessons to help develop and evaluate critical thinking skills that are adaptable to across curriculum and age level lines.

Lesson Plan# ALEP-COH0004: Fostering critical thinking skills for consumer health decisions.
An activity to develop consumer health skills among secondary school students.

Lesson Plan# AELP-STH0010: "Let me tell you about my state!"
Using Amateur Radio communication services, students compare and collect information about their different states culture, geography, government...

Writing to learn: Journal-writing activities
Several writing-to-learn activities using journals and learning logs.

Assessment Tools

Helping students assess their thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder.
www.criticalthinking.org/University/helps.html

Holistic Critical Thinking scoring Rubric
An assessment tool that may be used in conjunction with other tools to provide multiple measures of critical thinking performance
www.calpress.com/rubric.html

UMUC Assessment of Information Literacy Skills.
Part of the assessment resource center, guiding those studying information literacy in using their critical thinking, research, and problem solving skills.
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ERIC/REC Bibliography. Motivation: Some general theories and classroom strategies and practices.
Another great ERIC resource including web sites as well as ERIC citations and abstracts.

Suggested search terms include:
Critical thinking (subject)
Nursing study and teaching (subject)
Learning strategies (key word)
Nursing problems exercises etc (subject)
Physical therapy (subject)
Clinical skills and Critical thinking

Business

Critical thinking & collaborative learning
Video vignettes from the food service industry provide a basis for a variety of learning activities, including employee training sessions, classroom activities, or Web-based instruction and discussion.
www.uky.edu/HES/NFS/foodservice/critical.htm

A model for case analysis and problem solving. prepared by Edward G. Wertheim. A rationale and methodology for using the case study as a learning tool.
web.cba.neu.edu/~ewertheim/introd/cases.htm

Catalogs

Library of Congress Online Catalog
catalog.loc.gov

VICTORWeb; The University System of Maryland
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MEDLINEplus.
medlineplus.gov

PubMed.
pubmed.gov

Synergy.
Online, searchable database of journals from Blackwell Science and Munksgaard.
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There are a number of materials dealing with the subject of critical thinking in the ERIC and ERIC/REC databases. Search terms to use include:
Critical thinking
Decision making
Problem solving

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
www.eric.ed.gov/

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
ericae.net/

Critical thinking resources from ERIC
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ERIC/REC Bibliography. Problem solving in elementary schools.
Includes web sites and print resources as well as ERIC citations

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Digest #40.
Critical thinking: Promoting it in the classroom. prepared by M. Carol Tama.
A look at some of the literature in the field; includes references.

ERIC Digest. Critical thinking in community colleges.

ERIC/REC CS#760129 How to develop an editorial policy, teach critical thinking, and avoid insurrection in the journalism classroom. by Stephen Lambert.
(also published in Exercise exchange.46:1, pp 8-10. ISSN:0531-531X)

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
ERIC Digest 44: How to Read Television: Teaching Students to View TV Critically by NK Aiex. www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d44.html

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Digest 40: Critical thinking: Promoting it in the classroom. prepared by M. Carrol Tama..
A look at some of the literature in the field; includes references.

Graphic organizers in secondary schools [a bibliography]
Includes articles on critical thinking and enhancing comprehension using visual displays.

Coaching

ERIC/REC Document -Coaching Critical Thinking: Tutoring Athletes Toward Self-sufficiency
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Consumer Health

Lesson Plan# ALEP-COH0004. Fostering critical thinking skills for consumer health decisions.
An activity to develop consumer health skills among secondary school students.
www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Consumer_Health/COH0004.html

Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child, 5E [by] Lynn R. Marotz, Marie Z. Cross, and Jeanettia M. Rush.
Class unit on understanding the different ways that people define and approach health and healthcare.
www.earlychilded.delmar.com/resources/marotz/criticalthinking/reflective-unit2.html

Media Education in the Classroom.
Increase awareness of tobacco marketing and review the effects of smoking.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/true.htm

Decision Making And Problem Solving

Bardach E. (2000) Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: the eightfold path to more effective problem solving. NY: Chathan Pubs 2000.

"Communication studies group consensus exam" LaVonne K. Wahl.
Students use critical thinking and group decision-making skills.
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/Wahl.consensus.htm

Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/critical.htm

Critical Thinking in Design: Part 1 Project Planning, Part 11 Idea Generation, Part 111 Project Management
www.uiweb.com/issues/issue16.htm

Kirtland Assessment. Target Area: Occupational Education
k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~assess/oe.htm

Mathematics for Decision Making in Industry and Government: High School Modules
www.enc.org/resources/records/full/0,,011878,00.shtm

What Do I Want to Be when I Grow UP?
www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/projects/growup

Dentistry

Curriculum: Critical thinking in dentistry
Two courses designed to help students reinforce and incorporate the basic medical sciences in the care of their patients.
sdm.uchc.edu/predoctoral/curriculum/criticalthinking.shtml

Distance Education

MacKnight, C.B. (2000) "Teaching critical thinking through online discussions". EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 2000:4
Using online discussion and presentation tools to encourage intellectual growth and the development of critical thinking skills.

Selected papers on issues in distance learning.
A compilation of Web-accessible papers on general distance learning issues.
www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/libdist.html#Issues

Economics

Conceptual Analysis in Economics: an AskERIC Lesson Plan
www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/ Social_Studies/Economics/ECO0001.html

Statistics Canada: Canadian Statistics - the Economy in Detail, Primary Industries
www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/Economy/primar.htm

To Market To Market. From the Library of Congress/ American Memory, Learning Page
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: a 12-day EFL History unit. prepared by Sarah Lawrence
Using content-based instruction, students learn English and the positive personal qualities and contributions to society of a famous African-American. The students are encouraged to draw their own conclusions and to challenge stereotypes.
www.asia-u.ac.jp/english/cele/articles/Lawrence_Tubman.htm

Promoting creative thinking, speaking, and writing in the EFL classroom through the use of instrumental music. [prepared by] William Tyree.
Using music to stimulate creative thinking and encourage vocabulary and writing skills in the target language.
www.asia-u.ac.jp/english/cele/articles/Tyree_Creative_Thinking.htm

Teaching critical thinking. [prepared by] Sally Reid
A paper outlining various definitions of critical thinking and its use in the classroom.
www.asia-u.ac.jp/english/cele/articles/Reid_Critical_Thinking.htm

Gateways

Gateway to educational Materials, providing educators quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources.
www.thegateway.org/welcome.html

Mega Educational Website Collections. Baltimore County Public Schools
www.bcps.org/offices/lis/misc/mega.html

General Health And Medicine

Anatomy lesson.
A short lesson in critical thinking.
www.mssm.edu/students/linb01/GrossAnatomy.html

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project: Coaching winners: How to teach critical thinking.
Integrating critical thinking skills into the health care professional curriculum.
www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/winners.htm

Critical thinking on the web; a directory of quality online resources.
Subject areas addressed include Nursing and Teaching.
www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical/index.htm

Critical thinking in health care.
A problem-based learning approach to assist students in developing critical thinking skills in health care from the University of Florida.
www.hp.ufl.edu/courses/hsc4608l/

Effective Teaching in Agricultural and Life Sciences
www.ais.msstate.edu/TALS

Understanding dietetics and nutrition through the computer.
www.educause.edu/asp/conf/function.asp?pin=&product_code=e01/ps065&meeting=e01

The use of critical thinking skills to analyze health disparities
Skill building in using critical thinking techniques; includes a list of references.
www.etr.org/recapp/practice/edskills200107.htm

General Health And Medicine Print References

Alavi,C, ed. (1995) Problem-based learning in a health sciences curriculum. London: Routledge.

Health Expectations [journal]
The purpose of this journal is to "promote critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy".window.mm_menu_0806161619_1_5 = new Menu("Industrial",233,18,"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#000000","#003366","#ffffff","#ffffff","left","middle",3,0,500,0,0,true,true,true,0,true,true);History and Social Studies

Educated Guess. by Dan McDowell.
Social Studies/Current Events lesson plan using the Educated Guess web site. Students make "educated guesses" about near-future current events based upon events that have already occurred.
www.classroom.com/edsoasis/TGuild/Lessons/EdGuess.html

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: a 12-day EFL History unit. prepared by Sarah Lawrence.
Using content-based instruction, students learn English and the positive personal qualities and contributions to society of a famous African-American. The students are encouraged to draw their own conclusions and to challenge stereotypes.
www.asia-u.ac.jp/english/cele/articles/Lawrence_Tubman.htm

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.
memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/naw/thinking.html

Information And Media Literacy

Bibliography on evaluating Internet resources.
Includes websites and print resources related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet information.
www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

Center for Media Literacy.
www.medialit.org
www.medialit.org/othersites.html

Center for Media Literacy Reading Room Case Studies.
An outline for adding media literacy to a school curriculum.
www.medialit.org/ReadingRoom/casestudies/cs_olm.html

Critical Evaluation of WWW Sites
7-12educators.about.com/cs/ctevalwww/index.htm

Critical thinking and information literacy across the curriculum.
The Bellevue Community College project for including critical thinking and information literacy skills in the curriculum.
ir.bcc.ctc.edu/library/ilac/default.htm

Critical thinking and hypertext [by] Christopher W. Foltz.
When critical thinking and rational decision making skills are applied to the world of hypertext, students have the opportunity to create new realms of ideas.
www.wiu.edu/users/mucwf/crit.html

Critical thinking in an online world www.wvu.edu./%7Elawfac/jelkins/thinking.html

Critical thinking in an online world [by] Debra Jones (1996). Describes and instructional design project for teaching critical thinking skills for evaluating online resources.
www.library.ucsb.edu/untangle/jones.html

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet, EE Kirk, 1996, updated 2001.
milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

Evaluating Internet information
Questions and tips to evaluate information found on the Internet.
www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html

Evaluating Web Resources
www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

FIU - Information Literacy
Comprehensive site offering information about the FIU Information Literacy program and links to similar efforts in the U.S.
www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/index.html

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
ERIC Digest 44: How to Read Television: Teaching Students to View TV Critically by NK Aiex. www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d44.html

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking. ICYOUSEE Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web
www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html

Media Awareness Network
Practical support for media education; for families and schools.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng

Media Education in the Classroom.
Increase awareness of tobacco marketing and review the effects of smoking.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/true.htm

The Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Information geared towards K-12 educators and how to incorporate media literacy into curriculums.
Frank Baker, web master/media educator Columbia South Carolina.
www.med.sc.edu/medialit

Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media by JL Lemke, CUCNY, Brooklyn College School of Education
www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/page500.html

Privacy in the Information Age: helping students develop critical awareness about privacy and the security of personal information.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/priv/resources/privunit.htm

Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College.
Outlines the elements of information literacy; includes excerpts from the ALA position paper.
www.qvctc.commnet.edu/llc/infolit.html

Shapiro, J.J. and Hughes, S.K. (1996) "Information literacy as a liberal art; enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum". EDUCOM Review 31:2 (March/April 1996)
What does it mean to be information-literate in a society increasingly affected by information-technology issues?

Texas Information Literacy Tutorial T.I.L.T.
tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

Teaching information literacy in the digital age.
>From Baltimore County Public School System, the site includes assessments and scoring tools, best practices, and curriculum tools.
www.bcpl.net/~dcurtis/teachinfolit/

UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources.
Teach yourself how to think critically about Wolrd Wide Web resources.
www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

YCP Information Literacy.
Sidebar addresses how to locate materials, how to evaluate the materials, and how to use them effectively after forming a focused question or hypothesis.
www.ycp.edu/library/ifl/etext/etintro.htm

Lesson Plans And Activities By Grade Level

Elementary Level Lesson Plans and Activities
On the Web

Creativity/Problem Solving/Critical Thinking lesson plans and resources
Portal page to critical thinking lesson plans for various grade levels and subject areas
www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edcreative.htm

Critical thinking in our school community
Describes a project developed by the Eau Claire Area School District.
www.ecasd.k12.wi.us/departments/ci/critical_thinking/

MathStories.com; math for the internet generation
Membership and fee required. Over 5,500 math word problems that help elementary and middle school students improve math problem solving and critical thinking skills.
www.mathstories.com

Planning for problem solving instruction...
A general outline for using Critical Thinking in a 6th grade math class
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/math/ma6plan.htm

Trackstar: Developing critical thinking skills, why? How?
Designed as a guide to why critical thinking skills (or HOTS - Higher Order Thinking Skills) is being pushed into the classroom and how and where to find the resources needed to create a learning environment emphasizing these skills.
trackstar.hprtec.org/main/display.php3?option=text&track_id=7350

Tummy trouble (episode 105b)
Health habits and personal responsibility
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Lesson Plans And Activities On The Web

Creativity/Problem Solving/Critical Thinking lesson plans and resources
Portal page to critical thinking lesson plans for various grade levels and subject areas.
www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edcreative.htm

Detective fiction: Focus on critical thinking. by Vanessa Clayton
A curriculum unit using detective fiction to develop and refine critical thinking skills; emphasizes reading and comprehension skills. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/1/95.01.01.x.html

Educated Guess. by Dan McDowell
Social Studies/Current Events lesson plan using the Educated Guess web site. Students make "educated guesses" about near-future current events based upon events that have already occurred.
www.classroom.com/edsoasis/TGuild/Lessons/EdGuess.html

Eye of the Beholder, The Chesapeake Bay
Maryland State Archives, Photographs by Marion E. Warren
Think critically about what is there and what you see and how each sees the same image differently.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/photos/eye/html/bay.html

Ideal Classroom for the 21st Century: Teaching Thinking and Computer Skills for the Information Highway
Interactive Electronic Classroom
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/7295/html/schools.html

Maryland State Archives Colonial History Contest
The theme of the 2002 Maryland Colonial Society Essay Contest is: The Constant Guardian...Maryland Firefighters and Police in Review
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/html/essays.html
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/essay/html/02essay.html

Maryland State Archives Exhibits and Museum Without Walls
Web publications, On-line Exhibits, Traveling Exhibits, Speeches of Note
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/exhibits/html/exhibit.html

Mount Everest; a critical thinking, cooperative learning activity
An exercise in which students use cooperative group discussion and critical thinking skills to answer inferential comprehension questions.
www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Everest Crit.Think Lesson.html

Teaching in the Age of the Internet
Anne Arundel County Public Schools and the Maryland State Archives propose a collaborative program to combine traditional educational goals and the use of original documents with the technology of the Internet
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On the Web

Argumentation and critical thinking tutorial
An interactive tutorial with a series of tests to reinforce knowledge and understanding of basic concepts associated with thinking critically and making arguments.
sorrel.humboldt.edu/~act/

Brainstorming to find a thesis and create an outline. by Donna Metreger.
A critical thinking exercise
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/Metreger.brainstorming.htm

"Communication studies group consensus exam" LaVonne K. Wahl.
Students use critical thinking and group decision-making skills.
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/Wahl.consensus.htm

Critical thinking across the curriculum at Albuquerque TVI Community College.
Information about thoughtful teaching for thoughtful learning.
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project, Longview Community College
Created by the faculty of Longview Community College for use in integrating critical thinking into all areas of the curriculum.
www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac

Critical thinking across the curriculum; syllabus for CRIT 1101
A beginning course in critical thinking from Clayton College and State University.
a-s.clayton.edu/Humanities/resources/crit1101.html

Critical thinking and information literacy across the curriculum
The Bellevue Community College project for including critical thinking and information literacy skills in the curriculum.
ir.bcc.ctc.edu/library/ilac/default.htm

Critical thinking in biology: Case problems
Using case problems to inspire students to develop scientific reasoning skills.
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Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum.
onlinelearning.tc.cc.va.us/faculty/tcreisd/projects/ecac/ecacsite.htm

A model for case analysis and problem solving. prepared by Edward G. Wertheim
A rationale and methodology for using the case study as a learning tool.
web.cba.edu/~ewertheim/introd/cases.htm
See also: web.cba.neu.edu/~ewertheim/skills/writovv.htm

"Precursors to critical thinking"
The first of a three-part compilation of activities that require students to observe, organize, and think creatively as precursors to critical thinking.
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/wk3jun99.htm

Second critical thinking essay; Anthropology 110
An Anthropology writing assignment to develop and exercise critical thinking and research skills.
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On the Web

Creative and critical thinking
Critical thinking exercises based upon a museum visit.
curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/Museums/Teacher_Guide/home.html

Critical thinking skills guide picks.
7-12educators.about.com/cs/criticalthinking/

Encarta Schoolhouse: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=2799

Maryland Project Learning Tree
An award winning environmental education program designed for students in pre-K through 12th grade. www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/kids/plt.html

National Science Teachers Association
Teacher resources for all levels of instruction
www.nsta.org/

Rock or Feather: A critical-thinking activity
Students make and defend choices in this classroom activity.
www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson145.shtml

Scientific concepts and methods
The Michigan Teacher Network provides lesson plans, exercises, and other aids for teaching the sciences.
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Librarianship

Love, E. (1987) "The science of medical librarianship: investing in the future" Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Oct;75(4):302-9.

Brainstorming to find a thesis and create an outline. by Donna Metreger.
A critical thinking exercise.
planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/Metreger.brainstorming.htm

Chance, a quantitative literacy course helping students be more informed, critical readers of news stories using probability and statistics.
www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

Detective fiction: Focus on critical thinking. by Vanessa Clayton.
A curriculum unit using detective fiction to develop and refine critical thinking skills; emphasis reading and comprehension skills. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/1/95.01.01.x.html

ERIC/REC Document: Point of View Speech (A speech assignment in critical thinking)
www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/www/dbsearch/entries/r0000777.shtml

ERIC/REC Document: Rap and Orality: Critical Media Literacy...
www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/www/dbsearch/entries/c0000413.shtml

Links

Active teaching and learning by Jocelyn Robson
A paper presenting strategies for Active Teaching and Learning in the classroom
www.gre.ac.uk/~bj61/talessi/atl.html

Advanced Reference Online Resources, Towson University College of Education
Listings of search engines, search engine tutorials, gateways and portals, and other web-based resources.
www.bcpl.net/~dcurtis/reference/resources.html

Bibliography: Critical thinking.
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/irahe/arc/bib_critical.html

California Academic Press.
Not just books; offers information on workshops and projects; promotes the press as "leaders in critical thinking assessment".
www.calpress.com

Campus Writing Program Library Directory, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Click on "Critical Thinking" for a list of articles and abstracts on critical thinking.
www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/lib/libdir.html

Center for Critical Thinking resources.
A list of teacher resources created by the Center for Critical Thinking; includes instructional guides and lesson plans.
www.criticalthinking.org/k12/k12class/trc.html

The Critical Project. Created and maintained by James Elkins, Professor of Law at West Virginia University. This website is a "compilation of Web resources, knowledge fragments, and commentary".
www.wvu.edu/%7Elawfac/jelkins/opening.html

Critical thinking: A primer.
Palo Alto College site for faculty providing an overview of critical thinking and available resources.
lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/crit4.html

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Critical thinking resources on the web, compiled by Patrick Houlihan Includes links to best practices, brain teasers and other fun teaching tools, articles, and lesson plans.
fpweb.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/resources.htm

Critical thinking & collaborative learning
Links to recommended websites.
www.uky.edu/HES/NFS/foodservice/critical.htm

Critical thinking: Basic Questions and Answers
Provides an overview of CT and the issues surrounding it.
www.criticalthinking.org/University/questions.html

Critical thinking in the classroom - teacher implementation, related resources, & ordering details! Includes over 90 ready-to-use, research-based, classroom activities along with links to other useful sites on a very colorful page.
www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/sockenden/edb363/internetprojects/criticalthinking1/criticalindex.html

Critical thinking on the Web.
A rich list of resources on critical thinking by Tim van Gelder of the University of Melbourne.
www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical

Critical thinking page of William Klein, moderator of Think-L e-mail discussion list.
www.umsl.edu/~klein/Critical_Thinking.html

Critical thinking resources: an annotated bibliography
From Montclair State University (NJ)
www.montclair.edu/Pages/CRC/Bibliographies/CriticalThinking.html

Critical thinking skills, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
7-12educators.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncrel.org%2Fskrs%2Fareas%2Fissues%2Fenvrnmnt%2Fdrugfree%2Fsa3crit.htm

Critical thinking - what can it be?
7-12educators.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.regent.edu%2Fadmin%2Finseff%2Fcrtthink.html

Educause Information Resource Library
How faculty can play a key role in fostering critical thinking among students.
www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?id=eqm0048

ENC Curriculum Resources: Challenger Center Online. Includes classroom programs and simulations which take place at Challenger Learning Centers
www.enc.org/resources/records/full/0,,002329,00.shtm

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Teacher resources
Provides thousands of web links, professional resources, and information on important topics in education.
www.enc.org/resources/records/full/0,,008594,00.shtm

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Subject areas include arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies and vocational education
www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/critical.html

Humboldt State University Library
Critical thinking/disinformation on the web.
library.humboldt.edu/~ccm/crithink.html

Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines [journal]
From Montclair State University (NJ)
www.shss.montclair.edu/inquiry/inquiry.html

Maryland Community College Consortium for Teaching Reasoning.
academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR

Online Resources for Higher Education: University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence
www.iusb.edu/~ucet/otherlinks.html

Polk Community College Information Literacy Resource Page.
Evaluating sources of information.
www.polk.cc.fl.us/It/Library/Infolit/evaluating.html

Reason!Able [software for critical thinking]
www.goreason.com

Requirements for the Master of Education concentration in critical thinking: Montclair State University (NJ).
www.montclair.edu/pages/gradschool/betatest/EdFoundations/edreq1.htm

Roger Williams University CIC Workshop: using the World Wide Web to enhance student learning.
On technology in education.
library.rwu.edu/cicweb.html

Secondary School Educators Critical Thinking Skills
Links to general information about critical thinking, evaluation of WWW sites and general information, CT in writing, teaching materials, and sample lesson plans.
7-12educators.about.com/cs/criticalthinking/

Secondary School Educators Critical Thinking: General Information
Links to useful tools and articles for incorporating CT into the curriculum.
7-12educators.about.com/cs/ctgeninfo/index.htm

Secondary School Educators Critical Thinking: Teaching Materials
"How-to" resources, includes bibliography
7-12educators.about.com/cs/ctmaterials/index.htm

TWIST: Teaching With Innovation and Style.
A University of Iowa libraries program providing support and training to faculty and librarians integrating information resources into the academic curriculum.
twist.lib.uiowa.edu/

UEN.ORG
Choose "search curriculum" for lesson plans.
www.uen.org/

University of Maryland Baltimore County
IPCT: Interpersonal Computing and Technology: an Electronic Journal for the 21st Century.
jan.ucc.nau.edu/~ipct-j/

Anne Arundel Community College Center for Advancement of Learning and Technology (CALT).
Site contains information on traditional teaching, teaching and learning centers, problem-based learning, and lots more.
www.aacc.cc.md.us/calt/teaching_section_a.htm

Center for Media Literacy.
Links to other media literacy sites.
www.medialit.org/othersites.html

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project, Longview Community College, Missouri
Discussions and activities addressing concrete ideas on how to integrate critical thinking into the classroom.
www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/ctac.htm

Ohio Center for Critical Thinking (OCCTI)
www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occti.html

TALESSI Project: promoting active learning for interdisciplinary, values awareness, and critical thinking in environmental higher education.
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Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking PhACT presents a member message board, an events calendar, FAQs, a newsletter, and links to related information.
www.phact.org/phact/

Subscribe to the Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum email discussion list by contacting Nancy King at nseeking@tvi.cc.nm.us

Critical thinking in the classroom.
www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/bks/ct.html

Gutknecht, B.A. and Gutknecht, C.D. (1997) "Challenging At-Risk/Resilient learners: Alternatives to minimal level literacy instruction "
Reading Improvement; Spr. 34(1):8-21
Presents perspectives on instruction and explores the current curricular focus on critical/creative approaches.

MacKnight, C.B. "Teaching critical thinking through online discussions". EDUCAUSE Quarterly 2000:4
Using online discussion and presentation tools to encourage intellectual growth and the development of critical thinking skills.

Mayer, R. and Goodchild F. (1995) The critical thinker. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Brown & Benchmark.

Smith, C.B. A commitment to critical thinking. ISBN: 0-9638556-0-X
www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/bks/commit.html

Vale Press: "Critical thinking specialists"
www.valepress.com

Math And Science

Biotechnology Education Program (BEP)
Sponsored by the Lawrence Livermore National Library, provides information for students and teachers to understand the complexities of biotechnology and how it impacts society.
ep.llnl.gov/bep

Chance, a quantitative literacy course helping students be more informed, critical readers of news stories using probability and statistics.
www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

Critical thinking in biology: Case problems
Using case problems to inspire students to develop scientific reasoning skills.
www.saltspring.com/capewest/ct.htm

How Far Does Light Go? Debate - knowledge integration environment learning
www.kie.berkeley.edu/KIE/web/hf.html

How Much is a Million
wings.avkids.com/Curriculums/Dinosaurs/how_much_million_howto.html

Jason Project; real science, real research, real time, real learning.
"The Jason Foundation for Education is dedicated to inspiring in students a lifelong passion to pursue learning in science, math, and technology through exploration and discovery."
www.jasonproject.org

Maryland Project Learning Tree.
An award winning environmental education program designed for students in pre-K through 12th grade.
www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/kids/plt.html

Mathematics for Decision Making in Industry and Government: High School Modules
www.enc.org/resources/records/full/0,,011878,00.shtm

MathStories.com; math for the internet generation.
Membership and fee required. over 5,500 math word problems that help elementary and middle school students improve math problem solving and critical thinking skills.
www.mathstories.com

National Science Teachers Association.
Teacher resources for all levels of instruction.
www.nsta.org/

Scientific concepts and methods.
The Michigan Teacher Network provides lesson plans, exercises, and other aids for teaching the sciences.
mtn.merit.edu/resources/science/scientific_concepts_and_methods.html

TALESSI Project: promoting active learning for interdisciplinary, values awareness, and critical thinking in environmental higher education.
www.gre.ac.uk/~bj61/talessi/paper2.htm

Thinking Fountain.
Maintained by the Science Museum of Minnesota as part of the Science Learning Network; encourages questioning and inquiry by modeling the way questions about one thing lead to other topics and questions.
www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/

What if there Were No Clocks?
www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Crit.Think.Time.Lesson.html

Nursing

Basic nursing: a critical thinking approach.
A website based on the book.
www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Potter/Basic

Critical thinking in community health
Class taught by Karin Domnick at the University of Toronto; ". . . to refine critical thinking skills in health"
www.phs.utoronto.ca/courses/s_5003.htm

Critical thinking: To think like a nurse. www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/thinking.html

Critical thinking in nursing: case studies.
Practice critical thinking skills through the analysis of case studies.
www.homesteadschools.com/Nursing/descriptions/CriticalThinking.htm

Critical thinking scenarios for RN students.
A web page from the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center.
www.sbcc.cc.ca.us/academic/rhorc/criticalthinking.html

Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing.
A paid subscription is required.
stti-web.iupui.edu/library/ojksn/

Nursing Print References

Journal of Advanced Nursing [journal]

Nursing and health related fields
Bibliography; includes a wide range of material.
www.cte.usf.edu/bibs/c_thinking/nurse/bib_nurse.html

Public Health Nursing [journal]

Alfaro-Lefevre, R. (1999) Critical thinking in nursing: a practical approach. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Benner, P.E. (1996) Expertise in nursing practice: caring, clinical judgement, and ethics. New York: Springer.

Burnard, P. (1991) Experiential learning in action. Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower.

Burns, S. and C. Bulman, eds. (2000) Refelective practice in nursing. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.

Ewan, C.E. (1996) Teaching nursing: a self-instructional handbook. San Diego, Calif.:Singular,

Facione, N.C. and P.A. Facione (1997) Critical thinking assessment in nursing education programs: an aggregate data analysis. Millbrae, Calif.: California Academic Press.

Green, C.J. (2000) Critical thinking in nursing: case studies across the curriculum. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall Health.

Ignatavicius, D.D. and M.L. Workman (2001) Medical-surgical nursing. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Mayer, R. and F. Goodchild (1995) The critical thinker. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Brown & Benchmark.

Meltzer, M. and S.M. Palau (1996) Acquiring critical thinking skills. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Neary, M. (2000) Teaching, assessing, and evaluation for clinical competence: a practical guide for practitioners and teachers. Cheltenham, Glos.: Stanley Thomas.

Rideout, E. (2001) Transforming nursing education through problem-based learning. Boston: Jones and Bartlett

Rubenfield, M. G. (1999) Critical thinking in nursing: an interactive approach. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Tagliareni, M.E. and B.B.Marckx, eds. (1999) Teaching in the community: preparing nurses for the 21st century. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett.window.mm_menu_0806161619_1_5 = new Menu("Industrial",233,18,"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#000000","#003366","#ffffff","#ffffff","left","middle",3,0,500,0,0,true,true,true,0,true,true);Physical Therapy

Graham, C.L. (1996) "Conceptual learning processes in physical therapy students" Physical Therapy. 1996 Aug; 76(8):856-65.

Arguments: the basic units of critical thinking in psychology
Psychology is full of arguments, assertions with empirical evidence and theoretical support; identifying arguments is a key step in critical thinking.
www.necc.cc.ms.us/~cbillin/criticalthinker.htm

Exploring psychology scientifically - asking testable questions.
The first step in doing psychology scientifically is learning how to ask testable questions.
gateway1.gmcc.ab.ca/~digdonn/psych104/think.htm

How critical thinking integrated into general psychology at . . . Howard Community College.
Class exercises and a bibliography of sources, including video.
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Lesson Plan# AELP-CIV0001: An Approach to Teaching Religious Tolerance
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Social Work 6011: Critical thinking and ethical evaluation for assessment and intervention.
Course syllabus from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
courses.mun.ca/scwk6011/resources.html

Gibbs, L., and Gambrill, E. (1999) Critical thinking for social workers: exercises for the helping professions. Rev. Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. ISBN: 0761986081

Information competencies for social work students
Sponsored by the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ALA), provides links to information on critical thinking and research skills, and more, selected especially for social work students.
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Critical thinking for the veterinary profession: evaluating therapeutic claims in a rapidly changing world.
A conference held at the University of Missouri, Columbia, on October 20-21, 2001.
www.seanet.com/~vettf/Conspeak.htm

The Alternative medicine advisory page.
The National Council Against Health Fraud page dealing with the issues of unproven therapeutic claims, pseudoscience, critical thinking, and health fraud in veterinary medicine. View with Microsoft Explorer.
www.seanet.com/~vettf/