JoinScience Sampler: Fix the potholes! Helping students translate their interests and life experiences into scientific investigations
One strategy for differentiating science instruction that shows promise is a shift toward valuing students’ questions and life experiences (Barton 1998; Upadhyay 2006). In this article, the authors present potential techniques for doing exactly that. Also, they present ideas from their classrooms where they begin to help their students practice science that grows out of their interests, concerns, and life experiences.