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A beautiful resource that breaks critical thinking down into 8 elements of thought, each with its own definitions and sample driving questions.

"Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners."

This site offers various texts with both multiple choice questions and open-ended questions. You can select text by lexile level and by genre, theme, objectives. It's free and easy to navigate.

"John Hattie developed a way of ranking various influences in different meta-analyses according to their effect sizes. In his ground-breaking study "Visible Learning" he ranked those influences which are related to learning outcomes from very positive effects to very negative effects on student achievement. Hattie found that the average effect size of all the interventions he studied was 0.40. Therefore he decided to judge the success of influences relative to this 'hinge point', in order to find an answer to the question "What works best in education?""

"Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners."

In chef's pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples. Designed for grade levels 2-5, Pizza Fractions provides introductory practice with fractions in an approachable game-like environment. players presented with randomly generated fractions to identify by counting slices of pizza entry level simple fractions build confidence with denominators 1-12, excluding sevenths and elevenths adjustable level of difficulty allows beginners to start with easier fractions and progress as they learn option to advance questions by shaking the device or using a button score data and round timing allows you and your child to compete by alternating rounds

This helped me with some clarifications.

This video includes some points that may be worth discussing/arguing.

"Interact and vote with smartphones during presentations Make your audience feel more involved and motivated by enabling them to contribute to your presentations. Mentimeter shows the results live while your participants are voting with the web based mobile polling app directly in their browser, making sure everyone is part of the presentation. Get instant responses using smartphones for voting Visualize the results in real-time No need for documentation or administration since the results are saved automatically" Handles large audiences and can be customized with a variety of question types and displays.