1. Teaching Science to Every Child: Using Culture as a Starting Point
Chapter 3
Science Activity: Collecting Information while Investigating
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2. Chapter 3 Topics School Science in Transition
Observing with Minimal Bias
Explaining Observations
Investigating by Professionals and Children
Classifying and Measuring
Testing Understandings against the World
Predicting and Investigating
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3. Observing and Asking Questions
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4. Write two observations and two inferences for each panel
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5. Classify: Organizing Observations
Classifying is not about learning established classifications systems
Classifying builds upon everyday efforts to organize but follows particular “rules”
The only properties for classifying come from observations, not inferences or hunches
Standard practice is to divide groups into two opposite categories
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6. Gathering bits of colored glass in advance of making a mosaic … just as scientific investigating describes the gathering of facts, measurements, and data. In contrast, the artist created the mosaic by developing an overall picture. In doing science, we develop a cohesive explanation in an effort to make sense of all that we have observed.
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7. Chapter 3 Summary Investigating is a sense-making process
Frameworks offer a shift away from “inquiry”
Shift toward participating in science activity
Investigating begins with observing
Sense-making toward generalized explanations
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