Sensemaking in Elementary Science

Supporting Teacher Learning
Herausgeber: Davis, Elizabeth A; Kademian, Sylvie M; Zembal-Saul, Carla

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Produktbeschreibung

In line with current reform efforts, including the Next Generation Science Standards, this volume offers concrete pathways to redirect attention away from activity-oriented and vocabulary-centered elementary science teaching and toward elementary science teaching that privileges sensemaking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138386952
• ISBN-10: 1138386952
• Artikelnr.: 58053154

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Davis is Professor of Science Education at University of Michigan, USA. Carla Zembal-Saul is the Kahn Professor of STEM Education at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Sylvie M. Kademian is Lecturer of Science Education at University of Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 2: Focusing on kindergarten girls as science learners: Teacher
positioning of students supports science engagement and sensemaking in the
classroom, Alicia McDyre
Chapter 3: Portrait of a first grade teacher: Using science practices to
leverage young children's sensemaking in science, Amber S. Bismack,
University of Michigan & Leigh Ann Haefner
Chapter 4: What's Your Evidence? Revisited: Organizing Data Collection and
Analysis to Support Students' Sensemaking, Carla Zembal-Saul, Penn State
University & Kimber Hershberger
Chapter 5: Literacy Practices for Sensemaking in Science that Promote
Epistemic Alignment, LeeAnna Hooper & Carla Zembal-Saul
Chapter 6: Science, engineering, literacy practices and place-based
education: Powerful practices for integration, Jennifer Cody, Mandy Biggers
Response: Considering Issues of Equity and Identity in Elementary Science,
Lucy Avraamidou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Response: Considering Issues of Science Practice in Elementary Science,
Katherine McNeill, Boston College