The Critical Thinking Toolkit

#2: Rhymed Reductions

Overview:	Participants will first work on a brief illustrative activity via an overhead transparency and will engage in a longer activity, in teams, to analyze a lengthy passage and reduce it to its simplest terms.
Objective:	To stimulate critical assessment and the ability to translate excessive information into valuable nuggets of knowledge.
Supplies:	• Transparency #2-1• Overhead projector• Copies of Handout #2-1
Time:	About 25 minutes
AdvancePreparation:	Download Transparency #2-1. Also make copies of Handout #2-1 (enough for each participant) and staple the two pages together. If possible, arrange tables and chairs in groupings of five or six.
Participants/Application:	This exercise, suitable for any number ...