critical thinking in children

At a time when we?re constantly flooded with contradictory information and opinions, critical thinking skills are more important than ever. This accessible workbook is full of valuable insights, thought-provoking questions, and useful exercises to help teens and preteens expand their perspectives, skillfully navigate thorny issues, recognize bias, identify misinformation, and become more comfortable with dissent and differences of opinion. Becoming a Critical Thinker offers essential tools for students to mature into thoughtful, curious, and empathetic learners.

Teaches critical thinking skills through examinations of claims about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, vampires, alien abductions, the Bermuda Triangle, and other mysterious phenomena.

Explores problem solving and creative thinking in relation to teen health, looks at a formula for gaining confidence, examines advertising and its influence on health behaviors. Several self-assessments appear that help readers decide how well they perform certain health behaviors.