Teacher's Toolkit: A Scaffolding Suite to Support Evidence-Based Modeling and Argumentation

by: Ronald W. Rinehart, Ravit Golan Duncan, and Clark A. Chinn

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue presents an effective and flexible suite of scaffolds to foster student growth in scientific reasoning and content knowledge in the context of science instruction. These lessons incorporate these scaffolds on a variety of topics, including genetics, evolution, and the function of cell organelles.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2014Stock # ss14_038_04_70Volume 038Issue 04

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