“…Students' skills to think like scientists develop and their inquiring competencies increase with argumentation (Kınık Topalsan, 2020;Mello, Natale, Marzin-Janvier, Vieira & de-Almeida, 2021;Sönmez, Kabataş Memiş & Yerlikaya, 2021). Furthermore, argumentation improves students' critical thinking (Jiménez-Aleixandre & Puig, 2012;Katchevich, Hofstein & Mamlok-Naaman, 2013;Sönmez et al, 2021;Trouche, Johansson, Hall & Mercier, 2016). Argumentation is an effective way to teach SSIs (Belova, Eilks & Feierabend, 2015;Dawson & Venville, 2010, 2013Hefter et al, 2014, Ozturk, Bozkurt Altan, Yenilmez Turkoglu, 2021, because SSIs include issues open to discussion and this makes it easier for students to participate in the argumentation process.…”