Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists: Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community.

Benefits

- Motivate students to become engaged, curious participants in science.

- Understand and align science instruction with the Common Core State Standards for English language arts/literacy and the Next Generation Science Standards.

- Equip students with the tools to read, analyze, evaluate, and respond to scientific issues.

- Prepare students to engage in argumentation, develop claims based on evidence founded in research, and participate in debate and discussion of scientific ideas.