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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. Much like when I wrote about types of transfer of learning or types of blended learning , it was clear that although I kept seeing the same categories and question types, there really wasn’t a limit.

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Federalism Round Up

Passion for Social Studies

This is a fantastic way to engage students in the Constitution and make them critically analyze the US Government! Specifically, students will select one US federal event, such as Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Hurricane Katrina. They will then research the case and trace federal, state, and local responses to it.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

When they collected the tear gas canisters, they found they were made in and sent from the US company CTS, Combined Tactical Systems Inc. Though not directly provided by the US government, my interlocuters suspected that the weapons may have been bought with military aid money from the United States.

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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.

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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

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 Some of those concerns are I feel like not only a red herring but also fairly unfounded in terms of what the data tell us.”

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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?