Options for Engagement

What are your next steps in learning about the Science and Engineering Practices of Models and Explanations?

Follow this link to our 2022-2023 Science Fellows Community and Networking Sheet.

• Share your contact information with the community to support further networking

• Share your next steps for using student models to generate explanations?

Options for Representation - Two Steps

Individual Learning (Step 1)

Options for Engagement (personal reasons or contexts for doing this stuff)

• Building your own understanding

• Adding “models and modeling” to a unit

• Facilitating the learning of others … support a colleague

Resources for Representation - Choose your grade band

Elementary Common Resources - All Elementary Fellows Explore This Reading and Video

All Read: Mapping Vocabulary Onto Student Sense-Making

All View: Scientific Modeling in the Early Grades

These resources complement one another in that they both explain modeling in the early grades using the phenomena of a water puddle. In each you get the opportunity to see how student explanations are scaffolded with variations on the model template provided. The reading attempts to clarify how the practice of modeling can support emerging multilingual students (really, all students), reducing the need to front-load vocabulary terms at the beginning of a unit.

Secondary Common Resource -All Secondary Fellows Explore This Reading and Video

All Read: A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

All View: Developing and Using Models of Electrical Interactions: What NGSS Looks Like in the Classroom

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models provides a fantastic overview for secondary teachers on the practice of scientific modeling. The resource works to develop understanding for how we scaffold student thinking within the context of model templates. This resource leverages the larger framework of Ambitious Science Teaching from the work at the University of Washington. Get ready to develop a deeper understanding for the various types of model templates to support student explanations.

Options for Action and Expression

During our live Fellows session you will have the opportunity to discuss the reading and video with your grade band alike groups.

Your prework review and reflections will be critical to these sensemaking conversations. Please let us know if you have questions as you prepare.