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Critical Viewing Teacher's Guide (Stimulant to Critical Thinking)

Kevin O'Reilly

John Splaine

CRITICAL THINKING PRESS

Each mystery gives just enough information to start students guessing--usually in the wrong direction--as they use deductive reasoning, critical questioning, and creative reasoning to come up with the hidden meaning behind each story. Reading level: grade 4; ability level: grades 4-9; 32 activities and answers included. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

A Case of Red Herrings: Solving Mysteries Through Critical Questioning, Book A1 (Grades 4-6)

Thomas Camilli

CTB8905 Builds vocabulary and reading comprehension skills!

Think Analogies A1 Workbook - Learning to Connect Words and Relationships (Grades 3-5)

Cheryl Block

Word Roots Software, Level B\nThese effective activities help students learn Greek and Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes-the foundations of the English language-to improve their spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension for better grades and highe

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Teen & Young Adult

Cheri Blanchard

Education & Reference

Nothing to Fear explains why mankind has the ability to withstand nearly everything mother nature may throw at it, so long as mankind doesn t institute policies that cripple its ability to respond to potential threats. Mankind needs the availability of more energy that s both affordable and reliable, if it is to have the ability to respond to severe weather, heat or cold, rising seas, drought or any of the other conditions that could afflict people worldwide. The terrible conditions that plagued mankind in the past, when it lacked the energy to protect itself, included famines, starvation, death from freezing cold, and death from diseases that are now largely under control. Recently, policies have been implemented that undermine mankind's ability to withstand threats Mother Nature may thrust upon it. These policies have been instituted as the result of an unreasonable fear of carbon dioxide, an invisible harmless gas released when fossil fuels are burned, and an unjustified terror of climate change. Unreasonable fear and unjustified terror were phrases used by president Roosevelt in his inaugural address to highlight that fear itself is a threat. Today, we face a threat conjured up from questionable science that uses fear to promote policies that undermine mankind s ability to react to events. These policies are failing, and more importantly, crippling our ability to fend off any problem that might result from changes in our natural world, whether it be higher temperatures, colder temperatures, drought or sea level rise. The fact is, fossil fuels provide the affordable and reliable energy needed to protect mankind from Mother Nature s whims. Nothing to Fear explores the flawed science behind the social movement that blames humans for global warming and climate change. Discrepancies with the science are discussed in Chapter 4, and the status of CO2 emissions is summarized in Chapter 5. The problems and limitations of wind and solar energy are presented in Chapters 6,7 and 8. Chapter 9 shows how increased reliance on renewable fuels between now and 2020 will undermine the grid that collects and distributes energy to our homes and businesses. Chapters 10 and 11 address the false hope of biofuels and how taxpayer-funded subsidies grossly distort energy markets. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 explain why carbon capture and sequestration lacks credibility, how the Waxman-Markey proposed legislation foretold the implementation of extreme EPA regulations, and why efforts to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions are futile. To be complete, any book on energy must also discuss possible alternatives to the hypothesis that climate change is caused by carbon dioxide emissions. While there are several such hypotheses, the sun is singled out in Chapter 15, along with the possibility that mankind may be faced with a new Little Ice Age. Chapters 16 describes the damage that will be done to society, and the harm that will befall millions of people around the world if governments adopt policies that attempt to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions Chapter 17 and 18 examine why energy, primarily from fossil fuels, will allow mankind to eliminate the scourges of poverty that remain in dark corners of the globe, and why energy will allow mankind to protect itself from nearly anything mother nature may conjure up in the future. Obviously, little can be done if an asteroid hits the Earth, or if the Yellowstone caldera erupts, but even in these dire situations energy might prove to be mankind s salvation. My hope is that people will again start to use critical thinking.

Nothing to Fear: A Bright Future for Fossil Fuels

Donn Dears

Clexit is a follow-up to Dears 2015 book, Nothing to Fear. Clexit explains why the United States should withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty. 
Dears describes the impossibility of cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions enough to slow or stop climate change. Since the UNFCCC s purpose is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, and since achieving that purpose is impossible, the United States should withdraw. Dears explains why participating in, and funding, a failed treaty is immoral. 
Chapter 1, The UNFCCC, explains what the treaty is, what it aims to accomplish, and what it means for the United States. 
Chapter 2, Worldwide CO2 Emissions, answers the question: Can CO2 emissions be cut 50% worldwide by 2050, or will there be a climate catastrophe? 
Chapter 3, Cutting U.S. CO2 emissions 80%, answers the question: Can U.S. CO2 emissions be cut 80% by 2050 as former President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency insist we must do. Dears concludes the United States cannot cut electricity emissions 80 percent. 
Chapter 4, Cutting U.S. Gasoline Use 80%, discusses electric vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles, concludes the United States cannot cut emissions from its transportation fleet by 80 percent. 
Chapter 5, Comments on the UNFCCC Treaty, offers commentary on several provisions of the treaty. 
Appendix 1 discusses the unworkability of carbon capture and sequestration. 
Appendix 2 discusses alternative uses of CO2, explaining, "Nothing is on the horizon to convert CO2 to some other product that would affect how to dispose of captured CO2 between now and 2050." 
Appendix 3 discusses options for energy storage. 
Appendix 4 discusses the decline of nuclear power in the United States. 
Appendix 5 is the text of the UNFCCC Treaty, annotated for easy reference to the comments made in Chapter 5.

Clexit for a Brighter Future

This fun, mind-building 48-page book is made up of three types of puzzles that focus on addition and subtraction of whole numbers. These puzzles also sharpen students' critical thinking, computational, and algebraic reasoning skills. 1. "Balance Math Puzzles" require students to analyze balances to deduce the missing value. 2. "Inside-Out Math Puzzles" require students to reverse their thinking, using the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and multiplication and division to solve the puzzle. 3. "Tic Tac Math Puzzles" require students to figure out the correct order to complete all rows, columns, and diagonals. This book's spiraling difficulty is designed to scaffold a student's conceptual understanding of the targeted operations. Teaching suggestions and detailed solutions are included in each book. Try one of these intriguing puzzles--and then try to stop.

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