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Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies
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Building a Community of Thinkers
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Teaching Students to Use Criteria
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Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry

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Learning to Inquire in Social Studies: An Anthology for Elementary Teachers
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Learning to Inquire in History, Geography, and Social Studies: An Anthology for Secondary Teachers
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Snapshots in Time: Significant Events in Canadian History Set 1

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Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies

Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies

Assessing Mathematical Thinking presents a framework for effectively assessing and evaluating thinking in math. It shows how building assessment practices on a foundation of essential mathematical reasoning competencies provides a clearly defined, manageable, and consistent way to target assess…
Subjects: Mathematics
Grades: K, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
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Building a Community of Thinkers

Building a Community of Thinkers

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to build a learning community in which high-quality thinking is modeled, supported and explicitly encouraged. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Canada's Constitutional Crisis - A Simulation

Canada's Constitutional Crisis - A Simulation

As delegates to a simulated contemporary constitutional conference, students develop, negotiate and ultimately decide whether or not to support proposed amendments to Canada's constitution.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Caring for Young People's Rights

Caring for Young People's Rights

Use critical thinking challenges about young people in a variety of developing countries to foster understanding of the nature and importance of basic human rights.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Clichés d’histoire : Événements importants de l’histoire du Canada (1er ensemble)

Clichés d’histoire : Événements importants de l’histoire du Canada (1er ensemble)

Comprend 50 cartes qui reprennent les événements importants de l'histoire du Canada. Peut être utilisé comme un jeu divertissant ou une ressource d'apprentissage efficace pour enseigner et évaluer la pensée historique (instructions incluses). Ta…
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Clichés d’histoire : Événements importants de l’histoire du Canada (2e ensemble)

Clichés d’histoire : Événements importants de l’histoire du Canada (2e ensemble)

Le second jeu comprend 50 cartes proposant 50 nouveaux événements de l'histoire du Canada qui viennent s’ajouter à ceux retrouvés dans le premier jeu. Peut être utilisé comme un jeu divertissant ou une ressource d'apprentissage efficace pour …
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Clichés d’histoire : Version adaptée (3e ensemble)

Clichés d’histoire : Version adaptée (3e ensemble)

Comprend 50 événements importants de l'histoire du Canada tirés des jeux 1 et 2. Peut être utilisé comme un jeu divertissant ou une ressource pédagogique efficace pour enseigner et évaluer la pensée historique (instructions incluses). …
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Creating Thinking Classrooms

Creating Thinking Classrooms

Navigate the opportunities and challenges of current reform initiatives by focusing on three important shifts: reorienting to a thinking classroom; attending to enriched goals; and aligning practices with key principles of 21st century learning. Please note: Corwin has published a U.S. version of…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Critical Challenges for Primary Students

Critical Challenges for Primary Students

Using detailed lessons plans, provide young children with tools to think critically about a range of topics in a variety of subject areas.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
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Critical Challenges in English for Secondary Students
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Critical Challenges in English for Secondary Students

Use critical thinking challenges that span a wide variety of literature genres to teach students tools for critical thinking in English. Available as a PDF only.
Subjects: English/Language Arts
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Critical Challenges in Social Studies for Junior High Students
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Critical Challenges in Social Studies for Junior High Students

Engage students in thinking critically in social studies using challenges in five areas: Asia, the European middle ages, the Renaissance, North American exploration, and conflict and resolution. Available as a PDF only.
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9
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Developing Independent-Mindedness: Stargirl novel study

Developing Independent-Mindedness: Stargirl novel study

Use the critical thinking challenges in this novel study to help students explore the habit of mind of independent-mindedness and to nurture a sense of personal identity in the face of social pressure.
Subjects: English/Language Arts
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Enseigner la pensée géographique

Enseigner la pensée géographique

Faire participer les élèves dans la pensée géographique grâce à la pensée critique en utilisant un cadre solide de concepts, d’exemples, de questions et de critères interdépendants. L’adaptation et la traduction de l’…
Subjects: Social Studies, Geography
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Enseigner la pensée historique

Enseigner la pensée historique

Présenter aux élèves six concepts interdépendants de pensée historique qui seront clés dans leur capacité de penser de façon critique en utilisant des explications claires de chaque concept, des suggestions d’enseignement pour application…
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Exemplars in Geographical Thinking

Exemplars in Geographical Thinking

Engage students in thinking geographically about a wide range of regional, national and global issues. Available in French: Leçons modèles de pensée géographique
Subjects: Geography
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Exemplars in Historical Thinking: 20th Century Canada

Exemplars in Historical Thinking: 20th Century Canada

Guide students to use six historical thinking concepts to think more deeply about a wide range of historical events and people, using examples from 20th century Canada.
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks

Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to support student inquiry with questions and tasks that effectively promote critical, creative and collaborative thinking. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Great Canadian Political Cartoons 1946-1982

Great Canadian Political Cartoons 1946-1982

Use this collection of cartoons from the 1946 to 1982 to enrich your students' study of several significant political issues of Canada's postwar years.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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I Can Make A Difference

I Can Make A Difference

Using critical thinking challenges, support your students in undertaking responsible "social" action in the home, at school and in the broader community.
Subjects: Social Studies
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
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Immigration in 20th Century Canada

Immigration in 20th Century Canada

Help students think critically about the treatment of immigrant groups as they research their own family histories and analyze the uneven reception of immigrant groups arriving in Canada.
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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