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how interactive read-alouds can be geared toward supporting scientific sense-making.
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Using Science Theater as a format for student explanations.
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Build from structured partner talk to a structured whole-class share-out -
Several examples of sixth-grade students interacting with each other’s reasoning as they work to make sense of how sound travels.
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Rich experiences and forms of reasoning students draws on. -
Students have opportunities to consider whether and how they might revise their models. -
The co-development of students’ scientific arguments and models. -
Living tools used to negotiate and record evidence for and against claim. -
Six principles for engaging students in making evidence-based arguments -
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Elementary / Eliciting / Planning / Pressing / Supporting / Video / Professional Learning / Teacher Educator / Teacher K-12 /Scientific modeling and argumentation in early elementary classrooms.
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This video shows K-2 students working on and with their own evolving models of puzzling phenomena. -
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Use science theater to help students understand how dye molecules in chromatography. -
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