• For you lesson plans.
  

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0013.html

• This website emphasizes the importance of developing and evaluating critical thinking skills in the classroom. An example of a lesson plan is provided for teachers to help guide them during the process of developing lessons that reinforce the importance of critical thinking skills at all grade levels.

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Consumer_Health/COH0004.html

• This website is dedicated to the aspect of critical thought that deals with healthy choices for students in grades 9 through 12. A sample lesson plan is provided to help with the construction of units that help students critically analyze their own health.

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0031.html

• This website was designed to help fourth grade students to use critical thinking as a tool for invention. This sample lesson will help teachers design their own lesson. In this way students can learn to examine one’s surroundings and analyze a problem using critical thinking. They will come up with their own solution to this problem through the process of critical thinking.

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0057.html

• This website highlights the importance of problem solving as a part of everyday thinking and as a tool that students should be able to use. A sample lesson plan is provided for teachers to use as a blueprint that may be used to help develop students’ critical thinking skills in grades 4-12.

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0006.html

• This website is a tool for teachers if they are looking to incorporate Request Reciprocal Teaching into their lessons to give students purpose in their reading and help with comprehension. The lesson ideas are suited for all age groups and for any content area.

• Other Resources.
  

http://innovatingeducation.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/embedding-critical-thinking-into-school-science-lessons/

• This web article discusses the need of using critical thinking in science lessons. The article also details the different “tools of thought” that can be used to support critical thinking within the classroom.

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/litpack/BloomsCriticalThinking_files/frame.htm

• This website uses a slideshow to present Bloom’s Critical Thinking questioning strategies. The slideshow goes through the different levels of thinking and the characteristics of each and how to apply them in learning situations.

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/

• This webpage links San Jose State’s “Mission: Critical” project which serves as a comprehensive tutorial for critical thinking and provides interactive instructional materials to develop critical thinking skills.