An excellent post from the 21st Century Fluency Project and creating critical thinkers:

Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking

by Maria Popova 09 February, 2012 www.brainpickings.org

“Australian outfit Bridge 8, who have the admirable mission of devising “creative strategies for science and society,” and animator James Hutson have created six fantastic two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at kids ages 8 to 10 but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.
The animations — which are part Minute Physics, part The Dot and the Line, part 60-Second Adventures in Thought — are released under a Creative Commons license and cover the basics of logic and the scientific method, as well as specific psychological pitfalls like confirmation bias and Gambler’s Fallacy.”

Critical Thinking Part 1: A valuable argument

Critical thinking Part 2: Broken Logic

Critical thinking Part 3: The Man who was made of straw

Critical thinking Part 4: Getting Personal

Critical Thinking Part 5: The Gambler’s Fallacy

Critical Thinking Part 6: A precautionary tale

For more on the art and science of critical thinking, see the excellent primer Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument.