“…Accordingly, as science educators, we are aware of the urgent need to further develop ways of understanding and teaching scientific literacy that consider the complexity of science as it entangles with everyday life and to develop pedagogical principles and practices that can be useful to prepare the young generations to manage today's and tomorrow's urgent sustainability challenges (European Union, 2015; Levrini et al, 2020Levrini et al, , 2021. As we argue throughout this study, however, it is not enough to connect scientific issues to the relevance of everyday life; integrating an agency-oriented, politically aware, and transformative stance into science teaching and learning is crucial for successfully connecting action and learning (Bøe et al, 2011;Stetsenko, 2016a;Knain and Odegaard, 2018). Accordingly, in this study, we raise the question: How can we support school students to critically engage with scientific knowledge and expertise, not only to foster decision-making but also to become agents of transformative change as current complex societal challenges require?…”