Making the Connections

Are you wondering how to make the connection between summer and learning? Are you struggling to excite your kids about that connection? Have no fear, Edwina Moody has given us some answers in Kinetic Connections. Edwina provides practical tips to help teach hands-on learners virtually any subject from math to geography through printables and additional resources. New articles post approximately once per month. This month’s article gives us some wonderful ideas for connecting summertime to learning, such as playing games, working on merit badges, and watching movies based on books. Read her article to find out more. One way middle and high school students can make connections is through Logic. Lisa Duffy teaches student how to analyze statements, advertisements, and arguments and to identify faulty reasoning contained in each. Students will learn how to reason through the fallacies that are sometimes contained in what they are exposed to in the world around them through written instruction, examples, assignments, and quizzes. There are 15 units that cover Appeal to Pity, Appeal to Fear, Appeal to the People, Red Herrings, Snob Appeal, Appeal to Faulty Authority, Begging the Question, Appeal to Ignorance, Hasty Generalization, Quoting out of Context, and more.

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