Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking

by: Janis Bulgren and James Ellis

In this article the authors focus on how you can use a new tool—argumentation and evaluation guide—to enhance argumentation in the classroom, evaluate a claim made by others, and make and explain claims based on evidence from laboratory experiments.

Grade Levels

Middle School

Topics

Assessment General Science Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

Details

Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2015Stock # ss15_038_07_78Volume 038Issue 07

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