This handbook provides detailed information on how to conduct a series of research-based professional learning sessions focused on helping elementary classroom teachers to facilitate science argumentation with their students. Each session is 2-3 hours long and focuses on topics such as:
- An Introduction to Argumentation,
- Argumentation in the Next Generation Science Standards,
- Strategies for Establishing a Culture of Talk,
- Discourse and Learning,
- Argumentation for English Learners,
- Making Thinking Visible with Models,
- Using the Argumentation Continuum,
- etc.