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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students.

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How To Use Puzzles To Improve Concentration?

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You can also use board games to relax after a stressful day or activity, such as an exam or an argument with your parents! This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

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Encourage students to voice their opinions and be argumentative all while being ethical, maintaining decorum and respecting each other’s views. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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The 8 Elements of Critical Thinking

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The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p. In this non-critical state, the mind becomes a warehouse of facts, a receptacle of unfiltered ideas and arguments. The taken for granted becomes the norm.

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Best Annotated Bibliography Generators for Teachers and Students

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Once done, go back to your highlights and comments and synthesize the whole thing into a concise summary that captures the main arguments of the work together with your own critical evaluation and reflection. You first start with a brief summary of the cited material in which you highlight key arguments and topics covered.