Rationale
The Social Studies 11 curriculum provides students with opportunities to reflect critically upon events and issues in order to examine the present, make connections with the past, and consider the future.
PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Apply critical thinking—including:
- questioning
- comparing
- summarizing
- drawing conclusions
- defending a position—to make reasoned judgments about a range of issues, situations, and topics
SUGGESTED ACHIEVEMENT INDICATORS
Give examples of critical-thinking processes, for example:
- questioning
- hypothesizing
- inferring
- predicting
- summarizing
- verifying
- identifying relationships and patterns
- using analogies
- comparing
- classifying
- drawing conclusions
- defending a position
- reassessing a position
- recognize connections between events and their causes consequences, and implications (e.g., relate current events to historical contexts)
- develop pertinent questions to define a topic, issue, or situation
- compare a range of points of view on an issue
- draw conclusions about an issue, situation, or topic
- defend a position on an issue, situation, or topic
RESOURCES
The Critical Thinking Consortium (lesson plans) (online articles)
Critical thinking in socials studies
The Critical Thinking Community
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