By providing a variety of strategies, scenarios, examples of
student writing, classroom video clips from across all science
content areas, rubrics, and guidelines for designing assessment
items, "Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations
in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk
and Writing" ""provides teachers with the tools to successfully
incorporate scientific explanation in their own classrooms.
Grounded in NSF-funded research, this book/DVD supports middle
grades science teachers with an instructional framework that breaks
down the complex practice of scientific explanation into four
components-claim, evidence, reasoning, and rebuttal-and
providesconcrete examples of what this scientific inquiry practice
looks like when it is successfully implemented in real classrooms.
Over the last nine years that McNeill and Krajcik have developed,
field tested, and refined this instructional model, they found that
incorporating this framework for scientific explanation into
curriculum materials, teacher instructional strategies, and
assessments enhances students conceptual understanding and improves
their ability to think and communicate more scientifically by
carefully analyzing evidence and backing up their claims.
Facilitator's Guide Package for Science Coaches and Staff
Development TrainersTake the guess work out of leading professional
development and book studies with the "Facilitator's Guide and Book
Package. "To order, use Special ISBN: 9780132549400 and contact
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What Educators Are Saying"I would encourage others to use it as a
resource for a professional learning community or department
discussion group and the like... absolutely I would recommend it -
why? it is simply good for our students' developing understanding
of science..." "- Pamela M. Pelletier, Senior Program Director,
Science K-12, Boston Public Schools, Boston, Massachusetts" " This
book] can easily be used to guide middle school teams to
collaboratively work together to ask higher order thinking
questions in any core content area. This type of questioning leads
to great classroom discourse, therefore engaging students in using
claims, evidence, and reasoning.""- Kendra Walters Durham, Science
Teacher, Wester Middle School, Frisco, Texas Take a Look Inside
- Integrates video clips from a range of grade levels and
contexts (e.g., urban and suburban) throughout the text to
demonstrate the use of the scientific explanation framework in
actual classrooms (Chapters 2, 4 and 7)
- Provides examples of student work throughout the book to
demonstrate student accomplishment and to illustrate the most
common student difficulties and strategies for supporting those
challenges. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6)
- Incorporates learning strategies that can support all students,
including English Language Learners and students with special
needs, and helps teachers with ideas on how to modify instruction
to best meet the needs of their students.
- Presents rubrics for evaluating students' written explanations
and sample assessment tasks with model teacher critiques of student
explanations based on developed rubric.
Professional Learning CommunitiesSave when you purchase 10 books or
more To order, use Special ISBN: 9780132752022 and contact your
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