Natural Disaster and Critical Thinking in the Classroom – Kim Lochner | The OC for Social Studies

OER Conference for K-12 Social Studies | Track Talk: Designing arguments with evidence

Natural Disaster and Critical Thinking in the Classroom

How do we, as teachers, help students to become critical thinkers? How do students learn which information to trust and which to deem unreliable? This talk explores how the Australian bushfires provided a learning opportunity for both teacher and students, as they built critical thinking skills in the classroom. Students learned how to objectively analyze and evaluate a range of sources about an issue close to their hearts. In today’s digital world these skills are vital.

About Kim
Kim Lochner has been a history teacher since 2015 and began teaching Big History in 2016. She teaches the course as an elective over a two-year period, with students meeting twice a week for 70 minutes per class.
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OER Conference for K-12 Social Studies
August 5-7, 2020

We’re all exploring ways to ensure our students’ learning – and our own – continues to advance. Our new professional development conference for social studies can help meet those needs.

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