Ideas or curriculums to teach my children to think critically

[northcoast]

Hi,

 

I'm new to the boards and to the world of forums but I've lurked here a while.

 

I'm ecclectic and not sure I'm going to teach Latin or have quite the rigor of the WTM way. But so much is good and makes sense. I use Sonlight & SOTW for history, R&S for LA, WWE, IEW SIB, Apologia for science. My oldest is approaching the logic stage. I want to keep my 2 children together for history at least. I like Sonlight for the lit. and ease of use. My kids so enjoy the reading with Sonlight

 

Now for the question - looking head to high school what would help me to teach my kids to think critically? I'm not good at this so I'll be learning right along with them. Is Sonlight going to do it for me? What about TOG - I like the discussion questions I see. Reading is more rigorous than I had in high school. I don't know if that'd bad or good at this point. I like how TOG integrates the Bible with history too. I just ordered "Teaching the Classics." Any other ideas? Thanks!

 

Northcoast

ds - 11, dd - 8

[jen_white]

Hi! You might want to look into the logic books put out by the Bluedorns... The Fallacy Detective and The Thinking Toolbox.

They were written by students for students - to help them to think critically about things and not believe everything they see.

My two oldest children enjoyed both of these books (on their own) and I'm getting ready to have my 13yr old start the first book next month when we start school.

hope this helps. :) Jen White

[StephanieZ]

Consider

 

http://www.criticalthinking.com/getProductDetails.do?code=p&id=01201

[Julie of KY]

Prufrock Press sells a lot of critical thinking thing. One of the units I've really enjoyed is Mystery Disease.

[northcoast]

Thanks for the ideas! I'll check into them. Has anyone used Sonlight and/or TOG for high school? Which better prepared one to think critically?

 

northcoast