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How Does Metacognition Support Instructional Decision Making?
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Metacognition engages students and teachers in reflection of the learning process—in essence, thinking about thinking. Metacognitive questions give teachers a better understanding of how students are processing content…
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How Do Investigations Prepare Students for Purposeful Learning?
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Reading, writing, and technology become not only tools to enhance learning but also investigations in and of themselves. Investigations create three-dimensional learning experiences that include a variety of access…
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How Do I Integrate Investigations?
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When investigations are integrated thoughtfully, a dynamic learning environment is created and is visible in the classroom. This Part 3 provides ways to connect investigations within a unit of study, explains how…
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Why Is Questioning a Powerful Teaching Tool?
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Questioning cultivates student engagement and drives instruction throughout the learning process. It is a vital part of science and engineering. Questions challenge student thinking at key points within a lesson or unit…
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How Do I Prepare for the Power of Questioning?
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Involving students in the Powerful Practices model requires that you know your students as individuals and as a group. This will help create engaging questions and a collaborative environment that supports dynamic…
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How Do I Implement the Power of Questioning?
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Sharing ideas with a partner or group helps students structure thoughts to communicate thinking and offers an opportunity for them to learn together. When you model metacognition and use a variety of questioning…
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The purpose of this lab investigation is to introduce the concept of osmosis and help students understand “Why Do Red Blood Cells Appear Bigger After Being Exposed to Distilled Water?” This lab investigation will also…
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The purpose of this lab investigation is for students to apply what they know about the characteristics of plant and animal cells to classify an unknown single-celled organism and to determine “How Should the Unknown…
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The purpose of this lab investigation is for students to apply what they know about the process of cell division to determine “Do Plant and Animal Cells Spend the Same Proportion of Time in Each Stage of the Cell Cycle…
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Normal and Abnormal Cell Division
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of cell division to solve a problem that requires them to examine the cellular structure of tissues and diagnose a disease and to determine "Which of…
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of the process of photosynthesis to determine “Why Do Temperature and Light Intensity Affect the Rate of Photosynthesis in Plants?” This lab also…
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of the processes of cellular respiration to determine “How Does the Type of Food Source Affect the Rate of Cellular Respiration in Yeast?” The lab…
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of transpiration in plants to determine ”How Does Leaf Surface Area Affect the Movement of Water Through a Plant?” The lab also gives students an…
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they know about the function of enzymes to determine ”How Do Changes in Temperature and pH Levels Affect Enzyme Activity?” The lab also gives students an opportunity…
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to how population size changes over time and to determine ”How Do Changes in the Amount and Nature of the Plant Life Available in an Ecosystem Influence Herbivore…
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