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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

After doing some research, I realized that identifying clearly what the ‘types of questions’ are isn’t easy because there isn’t a set number. Other possibilities: Left Column/Right Column: Inventors/Inventions; Forms of Government/Strengths and Weaknesses, Geometric Shape/Formula to calculate area; etc.

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Federalism Round Up

Passion for Social Studies

So, they will not realize how power became divided between the federal government and individual states. Similarly, they will not realize how government structures operate at many levels and the impact of policy-making. Luckily, these Federalism round up resources are the perfect way to help students critically analyze the government!

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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How effective are newspaper endorsements in influencing voter behavior?

US Government Teachers Blog

To research that question, have them choose a newspaper and trace how effective an endorsement from that paper is on determining an election's outcome. Politico is already speculating that the paper's endorsements could "backfire." Classroom Connection : Ask your students: How effective are endorsements on influencing voting behavior?

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A crazy cool way to compare President Obama's SOTU Address to every other previous address

US Government Teachers Blog

Have them then research how that issue impacted that former president's agenda. As they read, they should compile a list of the five words or terms most important to understanding the topics of greatest concern to President Obama. Then click on each word/term and determine what former president also relied heavily on that topic.

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Work rules for benefits programs deter low-income Americans from going to college

The Hechinger Report

Government programs should be the last entity that should be restricting things that we know work.” Students who work while in college are 20 percent less likely to finish their degrees than classmates who don’t, according to new research. “It The student union at the University of California, Davis. Credit: Amanda J.

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

In May 2017, my research assistant Dana Burton and I sat through a nine-day trial at the US District Court in Baltimore, watching Phil Heasley challenge the validity of the polygraph test he had failed so as to reclaim the $2.8 Credit: Robert Engberg Striped marlin Tetrapturus audax: 114.6 million snatched away from him.