Critical thinking

How to Demonstrate

Your Critical

Thinking Skills

STEPS

Critical thinking is a skill that students develop gradually as they progress in school. This skill becomes more important in higher grades, but some students find it difficult to understand the concept of critical thinking.

Critical Thinking Activity 1:

Fact or Opinion

• My mom is the best mom on earth.
• My dad is taller than your dad.
• My telephone number is difficult to memorize.
• The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet deep.
• Dogs make better pets than turtles.
• The Empire State Building in New York is bigger than The Eiffel Tower in Paris.
• Eighty-five percent of all cases of lung cancer in the U.S. are caused by smoking.

• One out of every one hundred American citizens is color blind.
• Two out of ten American citizens are boring.

Critical Thinking Activity 2:

Describing a picture

You are given one minute to look at a picture. After this time period, answer the questions below. Picture 1

1. What is common for all? 2. Where are the people? 3. What age do the people belong to?

Picture 21. What is common for all? 2. Where are the people? 3. What age do the people belong to?

Picture 31. What is common for all? 2. Where are the people? 3. What age do the people belong to?