Initial Publication Date: May 30, 2024

Webinar 2:

Model-Evidence Link Diagrams

In this webinar, Dr. Missy Holzer, Dr. Janelle Bailey, and Dr. Donna Governor introduce scientific plausibility and the Model-Evidence-Link (MEL) instructional scaffold. The MEL diagram helps students reason about the connection between given lines of evidence and models that explain a phenomenon. The Climate Change pcMEL is used as an example. Its two competing models are: Model A) Climate change is caused by humans who are releasing gases into the atmosphere and Model B) Climate change is caused by increasing amounts of energy released from the Sun.

Webinar Resources

  • Webinar Recording
  • Webinar Slides
    • Webinar 2, 2024 Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 4.5MB May30 24)

Project Support

This project is supported in part by the NSF under Grant Nos. DRL-2201012, DRL-2201013, DRL-2201015, DRL-2201016, DRL-2201017, and DRL-2201018. Previous support came from Grant Nos. DRL-2027376, DRL-1721041, and DRL-1316057. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the NSF's views.