• Abductive Reasoning

  Critical Thinking

  Make your best guess based on clues you have, like a detective solving a mystery

• Straw Man vs Steel Man

  Critical Thinking

  Practice being fair being when you disagree on a topic. It’s about respect and understanding.

• Metacognition Reflection

  Critical Thinking

  Be a detective for your own brain! How did I solve that? What was tricky? What could I do better next time?

• Paradox Exploration

  Critical Thinking

  Sometimes, a sentence can’t be true or false, it just breaks the rules of thinking! It’s like a brain trick.

• Decision Tree Creation

  Critical Thinking

  Map together different choices and potential outcomes for real decisions.

• Analogical Reasoning

  Critical Thinking

  Test if a comparison holds by seeing if each part of one mirrors the other. Use as example a planted seed versus an i...

• Correlation vs Causation

  Critical Thinking

  Analyze real example where they are confused. Just because two things happen together doesn’t mean one causes the oth...

• Moral Philosophy Dilemmas

  Critical Thinking

  Debate ethical scenarios. Imagine a caterpillar on a playground slide. You want to slide now or remove it first.

• Syllogism Construction

  Critical Thinking

  Tell a story with three parts: two ideas (called premises) and a conclusion that comes from them. Build and test vali...

• Source Reliability Evaluation

  Critical Thinking

  Judge information quality from different places. Can we check it another way?

• Imagine something different happened.

  Critical Thinking

  Imagine if something different happened. Explore “what if” historical or personal scenarios.

• Counterfactual Thinking

  Critical Thinking

  Imagine if something different happened. Explore “what if” historical or personal scenarios.