Critical Thinking Systems

nd evaluate evidence, claims, and beliefs on Proposition 6 which would repeal Senate Bill 1. SB1 sanctions a $.12 gas tax increase, passed …” by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Brown in April 2017. The lesson includes key vocabulary terms, a reader with age-appropriate literacy text showing evidence in support for and against the tax, a worksheet scaffold on recording evidence, a template for holding a socratic seminar, and a summative assessment on writing a claim, evidence and reasoning after the socratic. This lesson is suitable for science, public health, math, statistics, economics, American government, and social studies classes because of its emphases in evaluating data, communication orally and in writing, and reasoning skills.