Claims Connections Conversations are FREE Ready-to-Print or Ready-to-Post activities designed by teachers to engage your students in analyzing and critiquing claims, and supporting them in authentic group discussion. Each topic poses an essential question about Washington wheat farms and environmental realities that impact them and their neighbors. In a Claims Connections Conversations activity, students are supported through reading and annotating an article, participating in a student-led discussion to identify and critique claims, and make connections to the text. Because they are self-contained and flexible, Claims Connections Conversations can be used as stand-alone lessons to supplement curriculum in science and social studies, and to strengthen student's discussion and informational text reading skills in any subject.