InfoGuides: Critical Thinking: Lesson Ideas & Tools

Lesson Ideas & Tools

Bloom's Taxonomy
Use Bloom's Taxonomy to help your students achieve a higher level of thinking.
Check Please! Starter Course
Five lessons that students can independently work through to improve their fact and source checking skills.
Covid-19: The First 100 Days of U.S. News Coverage
Examines Corona Virus news coverage and provides activities to improve news literacy
Critical Thinking (With Helpful Rubrics)
Critical Thinking: Critical for Academic Success
Three white papers with information about teaching critical thinking skills
Everyone Has Invisible Bias. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It.
Fake News, Lies and Propaganda: The Class
7 week fake news course
Keepin It Real: Tips and Strategies for Evaluating Fake News
This lesson lets students practice evaluating the credibility of news stories.
Source Credibility Pack
Resources and lesson plan ideas for teaching critical thinking
Stanford History Education Group
These resources help students evaluate online content.
TEDEd
Videos that include lesson and discussion ideas
Writing Commons
This is an open education resource that provides information to help you help students improve their writing, critical thinking, and information literacy skills.