Teaching Skepticism: How to Get Kids to Think Critically

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Teaching SkepticismHow to Get Kids to Think
Critically
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Whats this all about, anyway?

• Teaching as an art science
• Pick your battles
• Keeping it fun humor helps!
• Combine wonder skepticism
• Stories are important!
• Make many resources available
• Follow-up with curious students
• Dont expect educational miracles Take what
  you can get

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Theres a Dragon in My Garage!
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Physics is Phun Combine Wonder Skepticism
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Pyramids Alien Builders
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The Haunted Physics Lab
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Randis Secrets of the Psychics
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The Physics of Santa Claus
In conclusion -- If Santa ever DID deliver
presents on Christmas eve, hes now dead.
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Electromagnetism EMFs
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Illusions Pareidolia
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Large Hadron Collider Doomsday?
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Physical Feats A Sacrifice for Science!
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Breaking Boards
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Walking on Broken Glass
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The Bed of Nails
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When Good Demos Go Bad
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Shameless Plug

• Critical Thinking Education Group (CTEG) CTEG
  seeks to promote lifelong critical thinking and
  learning, with an emphasis on teaching critical
  thinking in all levels of education
• http//www.criticalteaching.org
• The Skeptical Teacher My personal musings on
  science, education skepticism in an age of woo
• http//skepticalteacher.org