G1 M4: Strategies 4, 5, and 7: Purpose and Key Features by https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6 CSW, A&I, Ex & Arg en-us 2020-06-17 16:57:37 UTC 2020-06-24 14:47:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Strategy 4: Communicating in Scientific Ways abelcastro https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898677 2020-06-17 16:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898677 Strategy 5: Engage students in analyzing and interpreting data and obeservations abelcastro https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898678 2020-06-17 16:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898678 Strategy 7: Engage students in constructing explanations and arguments abelcastro https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898679 2020-06-17 16:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898679 CSW Purposes abelcastro https://padlet.com/abelcastro/1hnj2mz6enf8jvj6/wish/630898681
  • Help students think more like scientists, develop scientific habits of mind, and engage in scientific discourse
  • Reveal students' thinking more clearly
  • Help students learn scientific norms of discourse (evidence, coherent reasoning, consistency of explanations and data, skepticism, questions)
  • Help students understand the nature of science
  • Engage students in NGSS science and engineering practices
  • Improve clarity, precision, and elaboration of student ideas
  • Empower all students to be successful in science settings

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  • Explicitly taught (may use sentence stems/starters)
  • Doesn't necessarily require technical science vocabulary
  • Teacher role shifts from intermediary to listening, noting progress, diagnosing problems in student understanding, and planning for instruction


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  • How should these strategies (especially strategy 4) be explicitly taught? Modeling? Other ideas?
    • Scaffolding, modeling, guided writing - a lot of scaffolding for strategy 4, 5, 7 (not just the right answer!)
    • gradual release of responsibility
    • could give peer feedback to claims, evidence, and reasoning
    • display poster or have individual versions available on tables
    • practice! Getting kids comfortable
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  • Make meaning of data
  • Identify patterns in data
  • Reveal cause and effect or correlational relationships
  • Support students in making claims and explanations backed by data/evidence
  • Support students in understanding new science ideas
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  • Includes organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data
  • Explicitly taught (students need support)
  • May include charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, drawings
  • Used any time during the lesson when investigating phenomena and/or developing and using scientific models
  • Used to help develop understandings of new science ideas
  • Provides an opportunity to apply new science ideas to make sense of data
  • When and how should digital tools be used with this strategy?
    • Don't just use them because they are cool - should support analysis/interpretation
    • Using digital tools can make things easier to see
    • Should be consistent with the storyline
    • Consider value of notebooks and doing things by hand as well - tech isn't automatically better!
    • Make sure tech doesn't distract from FQ
    • Use strategically to support students who would benefit
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  • Build on student curiosity to put together logical explanations supported by evidence and scientific theories
  • Develop scientific habits of mind
  • Help students develop a storyline of how observable events happen
  • Support students in testing explanations or new ideas 
  • Support students in evaluating the quality of logic and evidence
  • Promote shared understanding of plausible explanations that are supported by appropriate/sufficient evidence and scientific reasoning
  • Help address questions about design of experiments
  • Help with interpretation of data
  • Help students make sense of the world
  • Arguments play an important role in the explanation-building process
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  • Explanations = claim + evidence + science ideas/theories + logical thinking
  • Argumentation: comparing competing explanations or claims, includes peer critiques
  • Includes clear and respectful communication
  • What is the main difference between explanation and argumentation?
    • explanation: explaining the phenomenon
    • argumentation involves COMPARING and considering from multiple angles; challenging someone else's thinking (or their own)
  • When is this strategy used in a lesson?
    • Used any time when students are reasoning about observations and other forms of data, communicating to come to common understanding of storyline
    • Predicting future events or making inferences about past events
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  • From Wendy's post: I think Engaging students in communicating in scientific ways is the foundation for both Engaging students in analyzing and interpreting data and observations and Engaging students in constructing explanations and arguments. Likewise, both the ability of a student to communicate in scientific ways and analyze and interpret data and observations are both necessary to be able to construct explanations and arguments.   
  • From Maggie's post: Students must be able to communicate in scientific ways in order to ask the right questions and gather the right data. The sentence stems on the Communicating in Scientific Ways poster highlight this purpose because they guide students to weed out nonsensical ideas and focus on lines of thinking that can be tested. At that point, they can analyze and interpret data and observations with purpose, and only then can they use the data and observations to construct explanations and arguments. 
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