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What Is the Nature of Science, and What Does It Mean for Conceptual Understanding?
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This chapter examines the nature of science and the connection to conceptually understanding science, as well as its importance to anyone teaching for conceptual understanding. The recognition of the importance of…
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How Does the Nature of Children’s Thinking Relate to Teaching for Conceptual Understanding?
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This chapter presents the current view of the nature of children’s thinking. During the last few decades, research on learning combined with the wisdom of practitioners have given us important new ideas to consider…
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This chapter looks back at our attempts at making science teaching more meaningful through the use of the research findings available. It also provides a very brief history of science education in the United States from…
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How Is Conceptual Understanding Developed Through the Three Dimensions and Learning Strands?
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This chapter examines A Framework for K–12 Science Education learning practices of science and engineering, focusing primarily on science and the role in teaching science through the learning strands. The list of…
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How Does the Use of Instructional Models Support Teaching for Conceptual Understanding?
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This chapter is devoted to describing instructional models developed over time by teachers, curriculum developers, and researchers, including a current research-based model that explicitly supports the practices of…
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What Are Some Instructional Strategies That Support Conceptual Understanding?
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In this chapter, strategies are described that can be used to promote learning within an instructional model. There are many strategies that researchers and practitioners have determined to be effective in supporting…
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How Does Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning Support Conceptual Understanding?
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This chapter focuses on connecting instruction, assessment, and learning. It features some of the ways you can use formative assessment to support conceptual understanding in science so that teachers can make better…
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What Role Does Informal Education Have in Developing Conceptual Understanding?
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This chapter addresses learning in informal environments and in this age of technology, informal education is everywhere. Although opportunities have been available for many years, it’s only recently that educational…
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Putting It All Together: “Balancing” Case Study
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This Appendix features a case study of a lesson on “balancing” using the principles and ideas espoused in the book and in A Framework for K–12 Science Education. To illuminate the three dimensions and the four strands…
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This chapter introduces and provides an overview of the Feedback Loop. It explains its structure and usefulness in guiding teachers to consider a number of components when setting goals, developing tools to collect data…
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This chapter highlights how we think about goals in the Feedback Loop. It discusses the element’s value, explaining what it is and how teachers can use it to grow in their practice and better support student learning.…
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Designing, Selecting, and Adapting Tools
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This chapter walks you through processes for selecting, adapting, and designing tools to use in the Feedback Loop. It provides ideas for tools teachers can use to explore selected science practices in classrooms. The…
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This final step of the Feedback Loop is where everything comes together. The chapter starts by talking about what we mean by inferences and then walks through a few guides for making those inferences. Also included are…
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This chapter explores how to close the loop by connecting inferences and goals through feedback. It presents the process of connecting inferences about student learning back to original goals in the Feedback Loop, a…
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Using the Feedback Loop to Plan and Inform Instruction
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This chapter uses the full Feedback Loop to describe an approach for planning and informing instruction. It is designed to combine all the information in the previous chapters into a series of resources that will help…
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