Claim Context or Caution

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 8Ages 13 to 14·Nature and science·Worksheet
Claim Context or Caution

Three different failure modes that students collapse into one word, wrong.

A claim can be unsupported, or supported but misapplied to a different context, or supported and still dangerous in the wrong hands. Each requires a different response.

The page has the three category definitions, twenty claims, a sorting frame and teacher notes. The context category is the subtle one and the most common in practice. A dose that is fine for an adult, a preparation that changes the active compound, a plant that is safe raw and not cooked. Those distinctions are where real harm happens.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

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Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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