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The Need for Responsive Teaching
"Responsive teaching" means something that goes beyond the images of teachers presenting information or crafting experiences, to teachers really focus...
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The Refinement of Everyday Thinking
This chapter is in two parts and has two interwoven purposes. The first part focuses on everyday thinking, dividing discussion into sections—“Ever...
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This chapter provides a brief overview of the set of cases and provides four suggestions—temper the impulse to evaluate the teacher; focus on unders...
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This chapter presents the first in a pair of cases about classes on the same topic—a question developed by Izzy Kovach, one of the more experienced ...
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This book of case studies came from the final year of a three-year research collaboration among a team of teachers and project staff entitled What Inf...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This case study documents what happened in Jenny Tamper's 10th-grade biology class when she showed her students a stanza from Samuel Taylor Coleridge'...
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Ninth grade students at two different schools worked on the same conceptual questions about freely falling objects. This chapter presents the first of...
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This case study describes what happened in David Hovan's ninth grade "Conceptual Physics" class when he asked students to answer the conceptual questi...
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This book provides materials to support practices of learning to attend to student thinking, in classroom discussions and in student work. It serves t...
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Variables And Their Controls: Isolating Variables: Reducing Complexity
Determining the best hull design is a challenging problem. Scientists proceed systematically about designing a hull that minimizes water resistance. D...
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This chapter presents 15 Starting Points—some address physics, some chemistry, and others biology, while some have an engineering flavor. All studen...
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An Overview of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry
There are many possible answers to the question, "What is the nature of science and scientific inquiry?" This chapter provides students with experienc...
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Scientific inquiry often proceeds qualitatively, especially at the early stages of an exploration into a new phenomenon. The scientists' goal seems to...
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Have you ever asked yourself why scientists use numbers? It's an intriguing question. This chapter, which introduces the numbers game, highlights som...
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From an early age, children have a good idea of what being fair means. In a fair test, everything is treated in the same way (controlled), apart from ...