Bring logical fallacies alive for your students! Working with fallacies can be fun and engaging - helping students master what can be very complex and even dry material. Bring logical fallacies alive for your students! Working with fallacies can be fun and engaging - helping students master what can be very complex and even dry material. However, a good understanding of them can enlighten students about what an effective argument looks like. These lesson materials contain group work, worksheets, mini-posters, assessments, and creative and fun activities with topics that are relevant to teens. CONTENTS: Logical Fallacies Definition & Example Cards Logical Fallacies Mini-Poster Set Matching Role Play with Logical Fallacies Create a Storyline with Logical Fallacies Persuasive Techniques & Logical Fallacies BINGO Multiple Choice Quiz Logical Fallacies Included: 1. Ad Baculum 2. Ad Hominem 3. Ad Populum 4. Appeal to Authority 5. Appeal to Pity 6. Appeal to Tradition 7. Argument from Ignorance 8. Circular Argument 9. Double Standard 10. Either/Or Fallacy 11. Equivocation 12. Essentializing 13. Fallacy Fallacy 14. False Analogy 15. False Cause 16. Genetic Fallacy 17. Half Truth 18. Hasty Generalization 19. Mind Projection 20. Non Sequitur 21. Occam’s Razor 22. Questionable Authority 23. Red Herring 24. Slippery Slope 25. Straw Man 26. Scare Tactics Thanks for stopping by! Be sure and check out some of my other products! Just click on the handy links provided below. ♥ Coldplay's "Violet Hill" Song Lyric Analysis Lesson Ghost Hunt - Spooky & Motivational Informational Reading for Internet Parallel Structure: Five Day Mini-Lessons Twelve Angry Men In-Class Performance for Middle and High School The Twilight Zone "The Masks" Lesson

What Goes Into Making A Healthy, Balanced Meal For Your Whole School? In this project, students will learn about healthy eating while using fractions, decimals, and estimation. They will prepare a presentation for the school with a proposed menu that will be cooked in the school cafeteria. In their presentation, they must give information about the nutritional values of the foods in order to persuade other students to vote for their meal. There are handouts, a video, a reflection, and a rubric included in this project. This project is designed to have a structure compatible with implementing PBL in the classroom. NextLesson projects include certain key components that facilitate an authentic PBL experience.

Are your students disinterested and tired of the traditional ways of learning characterization? Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Well, look no further! I present to you a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, […]

Keep The Level, Color And Temperature The Same In A Leaky Cup Of Yellow Yellow Water - Maintain Homeostasis To Keep 'homer' Alive. Keep the level, color and temperature the same in a leaky cup of yellow water - maintain homeostasis to keep 'Homer' alive! Homeostasis is traditionally a tricky concept to teach. This is a memorable and successful way to finally get this central need of life across to students with a fun challenge. It's tried and tweaked, easy to resource and links the lab to the way their bodies work. It can work as the starting activity to any level of physiology course, within the characteristics of life unit at the start of middle school life science, or toward the end of a unit on cells.

Need some help with your American History lessons? Take a peek at my lesson plans and ideas. These are my Constitution Lesson Plans for 8th Grade American History. My first year teaching I was dying to see other teachers' plan books, but most of them were either blank or didn't seem suitable for our students ("high-risk" with poor reading skills). After teaching American history to 8th graders for a few years, I've developed this webpage in the hopes that it can help first year teachers get an

We want them to be able to make an argument using evidence, logic, and reasoning. And we want them to be able to do this in a variety of ways. But it’s difficult to create any sort of argumen…

Here you will find a simple essay rubric for elementary grade students, along with a few examples and tips on how to use them.

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This anchor chart is a really great way to organize the Bill of Rights.

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Don't forget to review the five parts of the plot. All stories, no matter how basic, follow this outline.

I've read about choice menus forever, but never tried it until just recently. I decided to created a menu to use during social studies review when students finish with stations early or we have a few extra minutes in class. I introduced the menu a week ago and you would've thought I'd given my students gold! They were thrilled!! I asked if they'd seen a menu before and we talked about a fast food restaurant menu. Then I asked what they would buy if I told them they had $5 to spend at the fast food restaurant. We played around with that a few minutes and then, with great drama, I introduced the social studies menu. I told them they had 50 points to "spend" and they were beside themselves - some even wanted to know if they could "spend" more! As we were going over the points values for different items one students even said, "All the fun stuff costs more points, but the boring stuff doesn't cost as much." I really had to pinch myself! How did this happen?!?! We've had a week to work on the menus and they have really been successful so far. I've been amazed at the creativity my students have shown. It's also been really interesting seeing which people and time periods they choose to work with. I think this is a strategy I will try to use again. Maybe next time I'll try something with reading - after a class novel or maybe even for their self-selected texts. You can click on the picture to download a copy of the menu. It is specific to 4th Grade Virginia Studies, but it might be a good place to start for a menu specific to your social studies standards. I'm linking up with Holly from Fourth Grade Flipper for another great Tried it Tuesday linky.

This week I'm sharing a packet of materials on using and making dichotomous keys. You'll find a page of informational text, directions for using a key, directions for making a key, and two different student worksheets. Here's a sneak peak at the contents. Download Dichotomous Keys. I hope you get a chance to use these in your home or classroom. Please let me know if you try these and how you like them! **Updated January 2019. Please note that in the updated version the Blue-footed Booby has been replaced with another animal.

One fun math idea to incorporate as a weekly routine is a Challenge of the Week problem. It is optional for students to give it a try, but...

Are your students disinterested and tired of the traditional ways of learning characterization? Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Well, look no further! I present to you a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, […]