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Teaching Skepticism: How to Get Kids to Think Critically

Teaching Skepticism: How to Get Kids to Think Critically. What’s 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

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Teaching Skepticism: How to Get Kids to Think Critically

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  1. Teaching Skepticism:How to Get Kids to Think Critically

  2. What’s 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 • Don’t expect educational “miracles” – Take what you can get

  3. There’s a Dragon in My Garage!

  4. Physics is Phun: Combine Wonder & Skepticism

  5. Pyramids & “Alien Builders”

  6. The Haunted Physics Lab

  7. Randi’s “Secrets of the Psychics”

  8. The Physics of Santa Claus In conclusion -- If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas eve, he’s now dead.

  9. Electromagnetism & EMFs

  10. Illusions & Pareidolia

  11. Large Hadron Collider & Doomsday?

  12. Physical Feats: A Sacrifice for Science!

  13. Breaking Boards

  14. Walking on Broken Glass

  15. The Bed of Nails

  16. When Good Demos Go Bad…

  17. 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

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