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Helms, Jennifer; Nations, James; Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2021
America's most popular science curriculum, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), fails students. This report details how the popular curriculum omits basic tenets of science, including the scientific method, and provides recommendations to correct deficiencies in the NGSS.
Descriptors: Standards, Science Curriculum, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Research
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Maloney, Jane – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article reports the findings of a research project concerned with children engaging in scientific argumentation. Discussion activities were designed to enable groups of children to use evidence when making decisions. The findings show a variation in the success with which children construct scientific arguments; some groups debate most of the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Group Discussion, Science Activities