High School Homeschool Curriculum
This 16-week, half-credit homeschool curriculum for grades 8-12 teaches teens to think critically about what they see online. Requiring about four hours each week, the lessons combine reading, writing, quizzes, videos, projects, and interactive online courses.
The lesson modules are hosted on FundaFunda's Canvas site. See Module 1.
Syllabus
- Week 1: Critical thinking and navigating digital information
- Week 2: Pseudoskepticism and fact-checking
- Week 3: Circular reasoning and lateral reading
- Week 4: Burden of proof and source credibility
- Week 5: False dilemmas and using Wikipedia
- Week 6: Tu quoque and evaluating evidence
- Week 7: Appeal to nature and evaluating photos and videos
- Week 8: Hasty generalization and infographics
- Week 9: Guilt by association and click restraint
- Week 10: Middle ground fallacy and social media algorithms
- Week 11: Statistical reasoning and slippery slope fallacy
- Week 12: Statistical reasoning, sunk cost fallacy, and online blackmail
- Week 13: Formal logic, healthy friendships, stalking, and philosophical questions
- Week 14: Formal logic, debunking misinformation, and online sexual harassment
- Week 15: Formal logic and pseudoscience
- Week 16: Formal logic and course synthesis/reflection
This curriculum integrates several of Critikid's courses, so it must be purchased in the bundle Critical Thinking for the Digital Age.