Creating Science workspace
- discovery stations
- adding some life to the classroom eg. aquarium, plants
- consider other senses e.g sound of ocean, jungle, woodlands
- distributing materials
- providing work areas
- providing clear directions
- create routines
Encourage science talk
- questioning strategies
- convergent-get children to think in ways that focus on basic knowledge
- divergent-think about a # of alternative answers
- evaluative-gets students to offer a judgement based on some critera
- wait-time/think time strategies
- give time
- partner share
- Fostering active listening strategies
- science talk and the science circle
- recap, redirect, re-voice, restate
Encourage Collaboration
- teach social and small group skills
Chapter 6
Assessment of Understanding and Inquiry
Formative Assessments
Summative Assessments
Assessment Strategies
- Prompt and Rubric
- performance assessments
- portfolios
- Science journals
- Affective Development Checklists
- Science Conferences with Children
- Science probes
- Concept mapping
- Self Assessments
- End of chapter assignment
- quizzes
- unit tests
- Research Reports
- Activity write ups
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