Safety
Before ever involving students in activities, ask yourself, "What could go wrong with this activity, and am I prepared to address the problem?"
What is foreseeability
Essential predispositions that help learners to channel natural curiosity into positive ways to learn about their world.
What are attitudes?
alternate understandings about phenomena that learners have formed
What are misunderstandings?
This part of the lesson is designed to stimulate interest, motivate curiosity, and sustain learner inquiry.
What is engagement?
the length of time a teacher waits for a student to respond to a question
What is wait time 1?
"Conduct that falls below a standard established by law or profession to protect others from harm."
What is negligence?
Mental tools for inquiry that scientists use to construct new ways of investigating and understanding.
What are skills?
the view of learning that maintains that learners must construct and reconstruct their own meaning for ideas about how the world works
What is constructivism?
This phase of the cycle allows for teachers to measure understanding and really used throughout the cycle.
What is evaluation?
the length of time a teacher waits after a student has responded before the teacher reacts to what was said
What is wait time 2?
Your duty to protect your students.
What is due care?
The collection of what scientists and young learners discover and share with others
What is knowledge?
misunderstandings that occur due to the use of imprecise language
What are vernacular misconceptions?
This phase of the science cycle is student centered, stimulates learner mental disequilibrium, and fosters mental assimilation.
What is exploration?
questions asked to require students to recall facts, formulas, procedures, and other essential information
What are cognitive-memory questions?
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What is the type of eyewear approved by the American National Standards institute for protecting students' eyes?
Observation, classification, communication, measurement, estimation, prediction, and inference
What are basic process skills?
If a new stimulus is not too different from previous experiences and mental actions, it may be combined with or added to existing mental structures
What is assimilation?
This phase of the lesson should contain the conceptual explanation for the lesson's question.
What is explanation?
questions that stimulate children to think independently
What are divergent questions?
Used to extinguish fires (paper products, electrical, and grease).
What are fire extinguishers?
identifying variables, controlling variables, defining operationally, forming hypotheses, experimenting, graphing, interpreting data, modeling, and investigating
What are integrated process skills?
If no preexisting mental structure are available to assimilate, the mind must adapt by changing or adding to its mental structures
What is accommodation?
This phase of the inquiry cycle should encourage connections to other related concepts.
What is expansion?
questions asked that cause students to choose, judge, value, criticize, defend, or justify
What are evaluative questions?