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  1. Preparing Social Studies Students to Think Critically in the ...

    Validating the veracity of a claim. It is critical that teachers model this process for students: "Vetting social studies resources is important not just because we want to ensure students are learning from accurate, verifiable materials. It's important also because the ability to ask questions about sources, bias, and context are at the ...

  2. Critical Thinking in Your Social Studies Lessons

    compare and contrast. determine relationships. sequence events. draw conclusions based on evidence. differentiate facts from opinions. explore impact. A lot of the social studies activities you're using probably include some critical thinking skills! Let's take a look at some simple strategies you can try to include more critical thinking ...

  3. Using Essential Questions With Students

    Critical Thinking. The Value of Essential Questions in ELA and Social Studies. ... The essential question. The BIG question. As a middle school social studies teacher, I loved weaving the EQ in and out of the unit, challenging the class to reconsider, reevaluate, and rethink a familiar question in response to new learning. The essential ...

  4. Social Studies Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

    The act of inquiring is an excellent vehicle for developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and both those skills are necessary for success in college, careers, and citizenship. ... This process aligns perfectly to developing inquiry and critical thinking skills in a social studies and history classroom. ... Analyze results on ...

  5. PDF How to Teach Critical-thinking in social studies education: An

    views on promoting critical-thinking have shown more commonality than divergence. Conclusion: The result of this study revealed that the use of classroom discussions, writing activities, and questions should be utilized more in social studies classrooms to promote critical-thinking. However, more studies are needed to examine the effects of ...

  6. 6 Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking in Social Studies

    Foster discussion and debate. Be the first to add your personal experience. 5. Integrate current events and issues. Be the first to add your personal experience. 6. Assess and reflect on critical ...

  7. PDF Encouraging Critical Thinking in Elementary Social Studies

    real world. Critical thinking is emphasized as an educational aim and referenced explicitly as part of the impetus for creating the C3 Framework, in which another goal is to "build critical thinking, problem-solving, and participatory skills to become engaged citizens." Developing critical thinking skills through

  8. PDF ©2008 National Council for the Social Studies Teaching Thinking Skills

    Critical Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change and ... Questions that Social Education 72(7), pp 388-391 ©2008 National Council for the Social Studies We live closely intertwined with our fellow humans in a world in which we must learn to think critically about important social issues. As we move into the future, the

  9. Critical Thinking and Social Studies

    Critical Thinking and the Social Studies Teacher. by Mike Yell. The advance of knowledge has been achieved not because the mind is capable of memorizing what teachers say but because it can be disciplined to ask probing questions and pursue them in a reasoned, self-critical way. Scholars pursuing knowledge submit their thinking to rigorous ...

  10. Chapter 4 Improving Social Studies Students' Critical Thinking

    60 4 Improving Social Studies Students' Critical Thinking 4.1 Introduction Social studies is defined by the American National Council for Social Studies as "the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic compe-tence" (NCSS 1994). The subject of social studies typically involves the integration

  11. Improving Social Studies Students' Critical Thinking

    The results of the blended learning approach suggested that when think-aloud (via podcast), self-assessment and peer-feedback (via blog) and Socratic questions were integrated in lessons, students achieved higher levels of critical thinking (i.e., forming substantiated reasons and judgments) when assessing social studies sources.

  12. 15 Questions to Encourage Critical Thinking

    15 Questions to Encourage Critical Thinking. What is one of the best ways to encourage critical thinking? By asking excellent questions! We have compiled a list of 15 questions that you, as a teacher or parent, can ask to encourage kids to think outside the box. ... From literature to social studies, students interact with all kinds of ...

  13. Solving Problems with Twenty Questions

    1. The students understand that they must find the answer to the problem that the teacher has put before them. 2. The students guess or reason what they believe is the answer to the problem. 3. By asking questions of the teacher, the students gather data to solve the problem. 4.

  14. Inquiry-Based Tasks in Social Studies

    A compelling question that is of interest to students and addresses issues found in one or more of the academic disciplines in social studies. It should provoke student thinking and align to curricular outcomes. Specific standards from the C3 framework. An activity to stage the question to elicit student inquiry. Supporting questions aligned to ...

  15. How to Use Essential Questions to Focus Instruction in Social Studies

    Essential questions achieve three goals. According to Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, good essential questions have three key qualities that make them ideal for the social studies curriculum. 1. Timelessness. Good essential questions stress a key theme over the span of human history, providing "glue" for instructional units throughout the year.

  16. Critical Thinking Questions: The Big List for Your Classroom

    In an age of "fake news" claims and constant argument about pretty much any issue, critical thinking skills are key. Teach your students that it's vital to ask questions about everything, but that it's also important to ask the right sorts of questions. Students can use these critical thinking questions with fiction or nonfiction texts.

  17. The Simple Guide to Themes & Essential Questions in Elementary Social

    Themes and Essential Questions dig into the big ideas of Social Studies and push students to think critically. Approaching your Social Studies instruction through the lens of these tools will make a tremendous impact in your class that extends beyond the four walls of your room and the 180 days of the school year. This simple guide will show you:

  18. PDF Teaching Students to Pose Their Own Questions

    rience as a teacher of both social studies and English to show how social studies teachers can integrate excellent writing instruction into their courses. The book recommends several writing strategies, each of which is embedded in social studies content, to show how thinking skills, mastery of information, and writing reinforce one another.

  19. How to Teach Critical-thinking in social studies education: An

    A corollary purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive resource for social studies scholars concerning ways to promote critical-thinking in classrooms. Methodology: In this study ...

  20. PDF Questioning for Controversial and Critical Thinking Dialogues in the

    and Critical Thinking Dialogues in the Social Studies Classroom Sean Lennon Valdosta State University Issues in Teacher Education, Spring 2017 Questioning as an Educational Tool The design and implementation of questioning, specificallyin re-gards towards a higher level of thinking, is a common practice in many

  21. Critical Thinking in the Social Studies. ERIC Digest No. 30

    Critical thinking is a major goal of social studies education. Teachers need to know what critical thinking is before they can successfully incorporate the skill into their teaching strategies. Understanding why critical thinking is a major goal of education in a free society helps teachers prepare students to be informed and rational participants in civic affairs and to gather enduring ...

  22. Critical Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change ...

    Critical Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change and Complexity. Authors: Linda Elder. Richard Paul. Page: 388. Journal Issue: Social Education November/December 2008. Special Section: Special Section on 21st Century Skills. The authors present the types of questions teachers should ask to advance student thinking skills.

  23. PDF Improving Critical Thinking Ability through Social Studies ...

    The teacher conducts remedial learning in the form of some programs, namely: 1) individual tutoring for maximum 20% of incompleteness; 2) group of study is possible when it reaches more than 20%, but less than 50%; and 3) The re-learning ends with an assessment only if the students have not completed in 50% or more.