The purpose of this activity was to increase my grade 9 students’ scientific literacy and research skills. I was finding that an increasing number of my students weren’t able to apply critical thinking skills to things like astrology and make an informed, scientific opinion about the quality of the evidence presented when they were presented with an area of pseudoscience or a product “claim.”
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