Are there any good resources for teaching children logic and reasoning?

Question

Please nothing involved or attached to christianity, I want pure logical reasoning steps and methodical reasoning. Too many of those home-school sites are scary as they are so slanted and fallacious in their arguments in order to produce children that believe the arguments for their religion.

Answer 1

Listed below is just a sample of what this site has to offer:

Argumentation/Critical Thinking/Informal Logic
Argument Clinic
Ariadne's Thread: Experiments in Critical Thinking -- arguments on contemporary ethical issues
Abductive Inference in Reasoning and Perception
Constructing a Logical Argument -- from AtheistWeb
Critical Thinking Core Concepts
Critical Thinking & Disinformation Links -- Humboldt State University Library
*Critical Thinking on the Web
Fallacies Leading to Assumptions of Common Sense -- Matthew Westra
"Informal Logic" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Logical Paradoxes
Mission: Critical -- interactive critical thinking tutorial, from San Jose State University
*Peter Suber's Course-Related Links for Real World Reasoning -- some great links here.
Practical Skepticism
*Propoganda Analysis Home Page -- Aaron Delwiche
Propoganda Techniques: Logical Fallacies
Questioning.org
Statistics Every Writer Should Know.
Think.ws. Intellectual technology to solve problems created by governmental / organizational technology.
Thinking Critically: A Tutorial -- Resource to accompany Invitation to Critical Thinking, 4th edition, by Joel Rudinow and Vincent E. Barry.

Good Luck....

Answer 2

I use a great book for thinking skills. The title is Thinking Things. There are daily one page activities with enough for the school year that cover different thinking modes. The activities take only 15 minutes tops. I don't remember the publisher but if you want it i'll get it for you.

Answer 3

Nathan Levy has a set of books called Stories With Holes. They are excellent to use with groups to develop lateral thinking. http://www.storieswithholes.com/

Logic puzzles (with grids and clues) are great for individuals. http://pages.prodigy.net/spencejk/grids.html