Title: Theory in Action – Helping Students Construct Explanations in Science
Book Title: "Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science (The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing)"
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Description: The goal of this book study is to provide teachers with an instructional framework that breaks down the practice of scientific explanation into manageable components – claim, evidence, and reasoning – and to offer concrete examples of what this scientific inquiry practice looks like when it is implemented in real classrooms. The chapters guide teachers through presenting the framework, creating scientific explanation learning tasks, providing scaffolds for developing scientific explanations, developing assessment tasks, and using assessment tasks to inform instruction. Teachers will walk away with strategies and scaffolds they can use with their students, as well as tools to use that will help inform their instructions . . . It’s theory in action!
Schedule:
Meeting @ Liberty in Lab 505.
Week 1: Jan 22 (questions), 4 – 5 p.m.
Week 2: Jan 29 (questions), 4 – 5 p.m.
Week 3: Feb 5 (task), 4 – 6 p.m.
Week 4: Feb 12 (questions), 4 – 5 p.m.
Week 5: Feb 19 (task), 4 – 6 p.m.
Week 6: Feb 26 (task), 4 – 6 p.m.
Week 7: Mar 5 (questions), 4 – 5 p.m.
*We have some copies of the book to be checked out; however, if you would like to keep the book for your reference you will want to personally purchase the book.