“…Providing teachers with fictional evidence of fossil records in the province of Buenos Aires and, through abductive reasoning, were asked to develop a hypothesis explaining the environmental change of the region and to extend their findings by making inferences about global climate change in the past. While completing this task, they practiced essential science competencies such as observation, description, comparison, identification patterns, classification, and formulating questions and hypotheses, explanations, and arguments (Adúriz-Bravo et al, 2005, Hernández, 2005, Ma, 2019.…”