摘要:Scientific inquiry plays an important role in students' learning process, since it focuses on understanding several key concepts in all grades. National Research Council (NRC, 2012) defined these goals for students as: "ask questions of each other about the texts they read, the features of the phenomena they observe, and the conclusions they draw from their models or scientific investigations" (p. 55). As defined by NRC (2012), besides putting an emphasis on content, science education also aims to focus on creating critical thinkers in the United States