Some aspects of reasoning have fairly rigid rules for what makes sense;
other aspects don't. If people have rules that always hold, and good information
about a particular situation, then logic can help them to figure out what
is true about it. This kind of reasoning requires care in the use of key
words such as if, and, not, or, all, and some. Reasoning by similarities
can suggest ideas but can't prove them one way or the other.
NSES Content Standard A
Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry Grades 5-8, page 145 Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations. Thinking critically about evidence includes deciding what evidence should be used and accounting for anomalous data. Specifically, students should be able to review data from a simple experiment, summarize the data, and form a logical argument about the cause-effect relationships in the experiment. Students should begin to state some explanations in terms of the relationship between two or more variables. |