Magazine articles on scientific topics can be a great way to develop students’ scientific literacy and encourage their critical thinking. In this presentation, we will describe how science-related magazine articles can be integrated into instruction to stimulate students interest in the science behind everyday life and increase their scientific knowledge. We will mention ChemMatters magazine as one source of such articles and introduce a new resource from the American Chemical Society that will include lesson plans based on the mostly highly ranked ChemMatters articles in the past 30 years. The purpose of these lesson plans will be to integrate the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards into instruction through the ChemMatters articles.

Using Popular Science Magazine articles to improve students’ critical thinking and scientific literacy

249th National Meeting (2015)

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