What is Science?
A way of understanding the ___________.
What is the natural world?
Next Generation Science Standards
What is NGSS
Study of sustainability, food webs, resource distribution and the changes in our climate.
What is green science?
Connections to the students own lives, opportunities for the students to actively reflect on their own experiences, clearly defined conceptual goals for the students.
What are the 3 crucial elements for teaching science?
UDL
What is Universal Design for Learning?
Set of practices, set of ideas and a way of thinking.
Science and engineering practices (SEP's), disciplinary core ideas (DCI's), and cross cutting concepts (CCC's).
What are the 3 dimensions of the NGSS standards?
Science Technology, Engineering and Math.
What is STEM?
Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate
What is the 5e model?
Engagement, Representation, Action and Expression.
What are the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines?
Practices that help scientists learn more about their area of study.
What is the scientific method?
The way of linking the and thinking about the different areas of science.
What are cross cutting concepts?
The idea that all knowledge is actively constructed by the learner as he or she comes to experience the world.
What is constructivism.
Inaccurate ways of understanding the natural world.
What are alternate conceptions (misconceptions)?
The How of Learning.
What is Action and Expression?
Differentiate the ways students can express what they know.
In order to find an answer, people usually engage in questions that include: making careful observations, making sense of observations, experimenting to test the idea, exploring results and trying to make sense of them, asking others to repeat experiments.
Understandings about the natural world "science ideas".
What are the Science and Engineering Practices?
Teaching should proceed in a way that allows children to discover ideas for themselves.
What is discovery learning?
Helping students to develop their thinking in a structured way.
What is scaffolding?
The Why of Learning.
What is Engagement?
Stimulate interest and motivation for learning
What is inquiry?
A scientific idea or practice that has broad importance across multiple disciplines, provides a key tool for understanding more complex ideas, relates to the interests and life experiences of students, is teachable over multiple grades.
What are disciplinary core ideas?
What is viewing our students as "knowers"?
Adapting instructional techniques to meet the needs of specific students or groups of students in the classroom.
What is differentiated instruction?
The What of Learning.
What is Representation?
Present information and content in different ways.