About part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:About
The current LR-MEL project builds from the foundation of our first two MEL projects. In that first, exploratory project, we investigated instructional scaffolds, pre-constructed MELs (pcMELs), that promote ...

Lateral Reading-Model-Evidence Link Diagrams (LR-MEL) Project part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project
The purpose of our project is to promote students' civic and scientific evaluations of sources and alternative claims when confronted with controversial and/or complex socioscientific issues in the Earth and ...

2024 Georgia Institute: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
Logistics Icebreaker & Introductions 2) What questions do you have after today? How do MEL's work with ELA? LR Activity: Extreme Weather Use lateral reading to evaluate the credibility of two sources ...

2024 Philadephia Institute: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
Logistics Introductions & Icebreaker LR Activity: Extreme Weather Use lateral reading to evaluate the credibility of two sources related to extreme weather. MEL Research Talk How do students negotiate ...

Webinar 1: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah McGrew introduces lateral reading as a strategy to evaluate the credibility of a website. The approach used by a Stanford student is compared to that of a professional fact-checker. ...

Webinar 2: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
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 ...

Earth and Environmental Science Educator's Institute: Connecting Models and Evidence part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
× Join us Wednesday, July 20, 2022 for an in-person workshop held in conjunction with the NSTA National Conference on Science Education in Chicago. The Earth and Environmental Science Educators' ...

Assess Students' Evaluation Skills part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Teaching Resources
The MEL diagram is an instructional scaffold that engages students in the act of weighing the connections between lines of evidence and alternative models that explain a phenomenon. The MEL team developed a rubric ...

2023 Philadephia Institute: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
Logistics Introductions, Icebreaker & Paperwork MEL Research Talk How do students negotiate evaluations of the relations between lines of scientific evidence and alternative explanatory models of a phenomenon ...

Webinar 1: part of Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project:Professional Development
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah McGrew introduces lateral reading as a strategy to evaluate the credibility of a website. The approach used by a Stanford student is compared to that of a professional fact-checker. ...