Evolution Through Natural Selection: A Critical Thinking Tool

Speaker: Daniel Loxton

• Presentation Notes (pdf)


• PowerPoint Show


• PowerPoint 2003 Show

Making a Skeptical Kid

Speaker: Matt Lowry

• PowerPoint Show
• PowerPoint 2003 Show
• Walking Barefoot on Broken Glass Demonstration
• Physics of the Bed of Nails Demonstration
• Secrets of Psychics Video Notes Assignment
• Haunted Physics Lab Assignment
• Astrology Activity
  • Survey 1
  • Survey 2
  • Solutions

Critical Thinking in English Class

Speaker: Kylie Sturgess (by proxy)

• Presentation (pdf)


• PowerPoint Show


• PowerPoint 2003 Show


• Materials
  • Description of curriculum
  • Marking Guide (list of goals)
  • Marking Guide (pdf)
  • Student Analysis Worksheet (pdf)
  • Student Research Worksheet
  • Student Research Worksheet (pdf)
  • Writing Guide
  • Writing Guide (pdf)
  • Student's Tarot Card Survey (pdf)

First Steps in Teaching Critical Thinking: WYSI[not always]WYG

Speaker: Barbara Drescher

• Presentation Notes (pdf)


• PowerPoint Shows
• Things that look like other things
• Reverse audio with internet links
• Reverse audio download all files
• How many squares?
• The circle problem
• Missing matter
• The monk and the mountain
• The Frazier illusion
• Brightness contrast illusions
• Change Detection: Street Scene
• Change Detection: Meet a Penguin
• Change Detection: In the Playroom
• Change Detection: The Airshow


• PowerPoint 2003 Shows
• Things that look like other things
• Reverse audio with internet links
• Reverse audio download all files
• How many squares?
• The circle problem
• Missing matter
• The monk and the mountain
• The Frazier illusion
• Brightness contrast illusions
• Change Detection: Street Scene
• Change Detection: Meet a Penguin
• Change Detection: In the Playroom
• Change Detection: The Airshow


• Links to Other Resources*
  • Daniel Simon's YouTube Channel w/Selective Attention Experiments
  • Quirkology YouTube Channel (Richard Wiseman's Color Changing Card Trick is a great attention demonstration)

*NOTE: the selected videos below are for personal viewing. Please consult the source for use in talks and classrooms.

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