Arguing from Evidence and Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Arguing from Evidence and Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

OpenSciEd materials create opportunities for students’ home experiences and ways of knowing to be a productive part of the classroom sense-making by showing the ways argumentation and communication vary across individuals, classrooms, out of school contexts, and disciplines. Students learn more when engaged in meaningful forms of argumentation and communication; thus the instructional materials provide structured opportunities for students to participate in arguing and communicating about elements of their work for the authentic purpose of explaining a phenomenon or designing a solution, at increasing levels of sophistication over time. Activities attend to the linguistic demands inherent in arguing and communicating across productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading and listening) language functions.