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What Are They Thinking?

What Are They Thinking?

What Are They Thinking?

Promoting Elementary Learning through Formative Assessment

  • By: Page Keeley

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ISBN: 9789386105899

Bind: Paperback

Year: 2017

Pages: 248

Size: 216 x 279 mm

Publisher: National Science Teachers Association

Published in India by: Viva Books

Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books

Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

Reviews:

"Children are continually developing ideas and explanations about their natural world... Some of these ideas are consistent with the science children are taught; others differ significantly from scientific explanations. Many of these ideas will follow students into adulthood if they remain hidden from the teacher and unresolved. The challenge for teachers is to find ways to elicit these idea and then use appropriate strategies to move students' learning forward."

    —Page Keeley, author of the bestselling NSTA Press series Uncovering Student Ideas in Science



Description:

You don’t have to become a mind reader to understand the ideas young students bring to science class. This collection will help you draw out and then recognize what students know or think they know about the natural world. What Are They Thinking? is a compendium of 30  Formative Assessment Probes columns from NSTA's elementary journal Science and Children. Each chapter provides:

  • A sample formative assessment probe: a set of interesting questions that root out commonly held, often- mistaken ideas. Geared to elementary students, probe topics range from why you can see the Moon in the daytime to where water goes when it evaporates to what is or isn’t a rock. Your students’ answers to each probe will help you take a step back and figure out how to guide them from where they are conceptually to where they need to be.
  • Accompanying teacher notes: easy-to-grasp explanations and advice that tell you how to encourage evidence-based discussion and then monitor students’ understanding.
  • A bonus feature: a set of study group questions written especially for this compendium by award winning author Page Keeley.

So forget about acquiring psychic powers. Instead, turn to What Are They Thinking? to transform both your teaching and your student's learning about science.

Target Audience:

Useful for school teachers.

 

 

Contents:

About The Author • Foreword • Introduction

Chapter 1: ?Doing? Science
Chapter 2: ?More A-More B? Rule
Chapter 3: Does It Have a Life Cycle?
Chapter 4: To Hypothesize or Not?
Chapter 5: How Far Did It Go?
Chapter 6: Needs of Seeds
Chapter 7: The Mitten Problem
Chapter 8: Is It Living?
Chapter 9: With a Purpose
Chapter 10: Where Are the Stars?
Chapter 11: Pushes and Pulls
Chapter 12: Teachers as Classroom Researchers
Chapter 13: Representing Microscopic Life
Chapter 14: The Daytime Moon
Chapter 15: Seeing the Light
Chapter 16: Food for Plants: A Bridging Concept
Chapter 17: Where Did the Water Go?
Chapter 18: Confronting Common Folklore: Catching a Cold
Chapter 19: Talking About Shadows
Chapter 20: Birthday Candles: Visually Representing Ideas
Chapter 21: Mountain Age: Creating a Classroom Profile
Chapter 22: Using the P-E-O Technique.
Chapter 23: Labeling Versus Explaining
Chapter 24: When Equipment Gets in the Way
Chapter 25: Is It a Rock? Continuous Formative Assessment
Chapter 26: Is It a Solid? Claim Cards and Argumentation
Chapter 27: When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K? Concept Cartoons
Chapter 28: Pendulums and Crooked Swings: Connecting Science and Engineering
Chapter 29: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning
Chapter 30: Is It Made of Parts? Scaffolding a Formative Assessment Probe

References • Index
 


About the Author:

Page Keeley is an author, speaker, and consultant who works with school districts and STEM organizations throughout the U.S.A. and internationally in the areas of formative assessment and teaching for conceptual change. She is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles.

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