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. Chapter 1: Empowering Students to Learn Scientific PracticesChapter 2: Learning to Talk Like a ScientistChapter 3: Learning to Write Like a ScientistChapter 4: Learning to Read Like a ScientistChapter 5: Empowering Students to Think Like Scientists