... humans, everywhere—and leverage authentic data and argumentation to convey the anti-racist reality that people with a wide range of skin colors thrived in high-latitude regions for many thousands of years, just as students with a wide range of skin colors can thrive in whatever place they currently call...

... and engages students in argumentation and decision-making. Given the importance of active student participation in infectious disease education, we recommend using children’s literature to engage school students in role-playing argumentation. This approach not only bridges the gap in student engagement...

... secondary biology lesson argumentation The year 2020 was quite a historic year for several reasons. This was the year the world became aware of two global pandemics—one being COVID-19 and the second being systemic racism ( Laurencin & Walker, 2020 ). The end of 2020 saw progress with COVID-19...

...-reasoning (CER) argumentation framework that is embedded within a new eight-week, freely available curriculum unit developed by the Genetic Science Learning Center – Evolution: DNA and the Unity of Life . The scaffold provides high school students with practice in both developing and evaluating written...

...Ying-Chih Chen; Mathew J. Benus; Morgan B. Yarker Scientists use models to represent their imagination and conceptualization of a particular phenomenon. They then use models to develop an argument to debate, defend, and debunk ideas in their peer community. Modeling is an essential practice...

...Ying-Chih Chen; Joshua Steenhoek Argumentation is now seen as a core practice for helping students engage with the construction and critique of scientific ideas and for making students scientifically literate. This article demonstrates a negotiation model to show how argumentation can be a vehicle...

... learning scientific literacy argumentation STEM education reform The PAL approach provides a way to engage students in solving compelling problems that foster the development of scientific literacy skills (e.g., finding and evaluating the quality of information sources and communicating...

...Victor Sampson; Francesca Gerbino We describe two instructional techniques that science teachers can use to promote and support scientific argumentation inside the classroom. These techniques are designed to give students an opportunity to establish or validate a claim on the basis of reasons...