... of Science evolution inquiry hypothesis pseudoscience Mystery Tube Teaching the nature of science (NOS) has become an essential part of the K–16 science curriculum. Science standards have made it increasingly clear that along with traditional science content, instructors must teach what science...

... of science. Most commonly in scientific research, a hypothesis is a tentative, testable, and falsifiable statement that explains some observed phenomenon in nature. We more specifically call this kind of statement an explanatory hypothesis . However, as we will see, a hypothesis can also be a statement...

.... That is, do they have any data, or do they just argue? The ID articles that I analyzed claimed to present real science, but they rarely referred to data and never tested a hypothesis. Argumentation, however, was frequent. By contrast, peer-reviewed articles by evolutionary biologists rarely argued...

... . 2014 Ethology scientific method hypothesis data collection NGSS middle school As part of a long-term outreach program at Arizona State University, the Graduate Partners in Science Education program has brought enthusiastic graduate students from the life sciences to work with middle...