Arguing From Evidence in Middle School Science
Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here! Use this straightforward, easy-to-follow guide to give your students the scientific practice of critical thinking today's science standards require. Ready-to-implement strategies and activities help you effortlessly engage students in arguments about competing data sets, opposing scientific ideas, applying evidence to support specific claims, and more. Use these 24 activities drawn from the physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space sciences to: Engage students in 8 NGSS science and engineering practices Establish rich, productive classroom discourse Extend and employ argumentation and modeling strategies Clarify the difference between argumentation and explanation Stanford University professor, Jonathan Osborne, co-author of The National Resource Councilas A Framework for K-12 Science Educationathe basis for the Next Generation Science Standardsabrings together a prominent author team that includes Brian M. Donovan (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study), J. Bryan Henderson (Arizona State University, Tempe), Anna C. MacPherson (American Museum of Natural History) and Andrew Wild (Stanford University Student) in this new, accessible book to help you teach your middle school students to think and argue like scientists!Brian M. Donovan is The John Evans Gessford Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow in Ka12 Education. He holds a BA in biology from Colorado College, an MA in teaching from the University of San Francisco, and an MS in biology from Stanford University and graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in science education in 2016. Before Stanford, he taught science in San Francisco middle schools and to aat-riska high school youth in a wilderness therapy program.
| Title | : | Arguing From Evidence in Middle School Science |
| Author | : | Jonathan Osborne, Brian M. Donovan, J. Bryan Henderson, Anna C. MacPherson, Andrew Wild |
| Publisher | : | Corwin Press - 2016-09-14 |
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