EDUC341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sensemaking
29 Apr 2019
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Chapter 9 - supporting ongoing changes in thinking: activity and sense making. For any activity, you can make adjustments in the intellectual demands for students. Involve students in authentic disciplinary practices - modeling, designing investigations, displaying and analyzing data, seeking relevant information, representing findings for an audience. All activities should support some part of an explanation for a unit"s anchoring event. Do authentic work and connect science with social issues. Use secondhand data to make and argue claims. Enact a debate focusing on community issues related to science. Making connections and recognizing relationships or patterns. Recognizing distinctions among things that appear closely related. Understanding why things in the same class can be similar or distinct. Learn how parts of a representation symbolize something in the real world. Recognize how parts make wholes that have unique characteristics. Grasp how a new idea can be used to explain an everyday event. Why a set of events or conditions causes something to happen.
