Showing+Evidence

=**Showing Evidence Tool **=
 * Use this online tool to:**
 * Develop effective argumentation skills
 * Develop strategies for encouraging discussion as students make claims, support their claims with evidence, debate differences and reach conclusions..
 * Analyse and evaluate criteria for their decisions..

**SE Tool and HOTS**
The //Showing Evidence Tool// provides a scaffold to support students as they create a claim and then support or refute it with appropriate evidence. When an argument is complicated, the components of the tool help students think through justifying a claim. The //Showing Evidence Tool// prompts students to consider the quality of the evidence (Do they trust the source?), and the strength of the evidence to support their claim (Is the evidence central to their argument?). Students use the tool to explicitly link evidence to their claim and provide their reasoning as to why the evidence supports their claim (What general principle or idea allows them to make that connection?).