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Grade Level Grades 8-12
Standards Alignment
Next Generation Science Standards, State-specific

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ThinkKeen.com is a free web app to teach critical thinking skills for science. This fills in the gaps in the NGSS & state standards to arm students against science disinformation — lessons and quizzes to distinguish anecdotal stories from empirical evidence, science from pseudoscience, evidence-based medicine from alternative medicine, fringe opinions from scientific consensus, and fact from conspiracy theories. Also covers randomized control groups, placebos, sample size, double-blinded, misleading claims, misunderstanding of “natural”, and other misperceptions of science.

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Reject pseudoscience as a source of scientific knowledge.
Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
Reject pseudoscience as a source of scientific knowledge.
understands a testable hypothesis or inference must be subject to confirmation by empirical evidence
Science is based on observable phenomena and empirical evidence.
understands scientific knowledge begins with empirical observations, which are the data (also called facts or evidence) upon which further scientific knowledge is built.
Contrast empirical evidence and opinion evidence
Contrast empirical evidence and opinion evidence
Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species.
Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in: (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species.
Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.
Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.

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