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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…

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 to drive students to learn science’s big ideas. The model has six phases: creating a testable question, conducting an investigation cooperatively, constructing an argument in groups, negotiating arguments publicly, consulting the experts, and writing and reflecting individually. A fifth-grade classroom example from a unit on the human body serves as an example to portray how argumentation can be integrated into science classrooms.

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    • Arguing Like a Scientist: Engaging Students in Core Scientific Practices
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    2014-04-01
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    • Published as Chen, Ying-Chih, & Steenhoek, Joshua (2014). Arguing Like a Scientist: Engaging Students in Core Scientific Practices. AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER, 76(4), 231-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.4.3 © 2014 by the Regents of the University of California. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/r/ucal) or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com.

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    Chen, Ying-Chih, & Steenhoek, Joshua (2014). Arguing Like a Scientist: Engaging Students in Core Scientific Practices. AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER, 76(4), 231-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.4.3

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