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- Title
Climate Changes of the Past: Engaging in Evidence-Based Argumentation.
- Authors
Governor, Donna; Strickland, Kristina; Bailey, Janelle M.
- Abstract
Our Earth’s climate is dynamic and ever changing. The fossil record provides evidence of early organisms and information about climate changes of the past. By exploring evidence of variations in the fossil record, students can better understand the issues related to climate change today. In the build-a-MEL activity described here, students are asked to evaluate different lines of evidence and make a judgement about how they connect to alternative explanatory models. Critical thinking skills are enhanced while students engage in a process of negotiation about the evidence, and students are hopefully better prepared to address the complexity of issues related to our current climate change situation from studying fossil evidence.
- Subjects
FOSSILS; JUDGMENT (Psychology); CRITICAL thinking; NEGOTIATION
- Publication
Earth Scientist, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 3, p13
- ISSN
1045-4772
- Publication type
Article