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Science 101: How Do We Determine: "Cause and Effect?"
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Robertson, Bill – Science and Children, 2014
At first glance it seems easy to attribute cause and effect when it's not applicable, either through mistakenly taking every correlation as a cause and effect relationship, misinterpreting the meaning of independent and dependent variables, or not focusing on direct causes. Sometimes it's easy to help students understand where…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Scientific Concepts, Correlation