1. Teaching Skepticism: How to Get Kids to Think Critically

2. What’s this all about, anyway? Teaching as an art & science Pick your battles Keeping it fun – humor helps! Combine wonder & skepticism Stories are important! Make many resources available Follow-up with curious students Don’t expect educational “miracles” – Take what you can get

3. There’s a Dragon in My Garage!

4. Physics is Phun: Combine Wonder & Skepticism

5. Pyramids & “Alien Builders”

6. The Haunted Physics Lab

7. Randi’s “Secrets of the Psychics”

8. The Physics of Santa Claus In conclusion -- If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas eve, he’s now dead.

9. Electromagnetism & EMFs

10. Illusions & Pareidolia

11. Large Hadron Collider & Doomsday?

12. Physical Feats: A Sacrifice for Science!

13. Breaking Boards

14. Walking on Broken Glass

15. The Bed of Nails

16. When Good Demos Go Bad…

17. Critical Thinking Education Group (CTEG) – CTEG seeks to promote lifelong critical thinking and learning, with an emphasis on teaching critical thinking in all levels of education… http://www.criticalteaching.org The Skeptical Teacher – My personal musings on science, education & skepticism in an age of woo… http://skepticalteacher.org Shameless Plug…