Anyone can have an opinion, but backing it up with well-articulated evidence requires careful thinking. The Showing Evidence Tool helps students learn how to construct well-reasoned arguments and prove their case with credible evidence. The tool provides a visual framework to make claims, identify evidence, evaluate the quality of that evidence, explain how the evidence supports or weakens claims, and reach conclusions based on the evidence. This thinking tool supports activities where students debate differences, make and defend decisions, and analyze conflicting information.

• Oobleck: Does everything have its place? (3)
• Space: Why do we explore? (6-8)
• Examining Change: What happens next? (6-10)
• Genius Unleashed: How do we explain what happens around us? (7-12)
• What's in Your Genes?: Just because we can should we? (9-12)
• Mysterious Malady: How do we decide which scientific claims to believe? (10-12)