Development of Scientific Ideas and Reasoning - Tool Box

Background information

• Children and adolescent intellectual development resources
• Causes of misconceptions, naive understandings, or perceptual understandings
• Science knowledge base with concepts & misconceptions for science inquiry, investigation, reasoning, or experimentation (ethnographic & experimental) . Information was compiled from observing different ages of students answering or attempting to answer questions that involved using observation of variables to explain a cause and effect relationship.
• Using a discrepant event to assess understanding of temperature - interview related to the activities in Energy transfer: Heat & temperature.
• Characteristics related to the development of science talent

Reflective analysis of student development to their responses in activities

• Science journals for an - Aquarium terrarium investigation - focuses on teacher's notes of student responses as - observational evidence for reasonable inferences for the student activity - Build a terrarium and aquarium system and record what happens ...
• Using information from interviews of preschoolers to science literate adults to map the development for the understanding Magnetism.
• Student discussion about - Reproduction of moths and butterflies.

Discrepant activities with student responses and developmental analysis

• Discrepant activity Jar with lid and two holes held underwater with student results classified into three categories - diagram 4 Jars under water
• Discrepant activity - Cartesian diver
  • Cartesian Diver with explanation
  • Video only
  • Activity plan for Grade 3-4 Cartesian Diver Activity
  • Activity plan for Middle grades ⁺ Cartesian Diver Activity
  • Cartesian diver and development with operational definitions
• Discrepant activity - Pressure
• Discrepant activity - Weight and Gravity and a summary of findings and misconceptions found from interviewing students

Discrepant Activities - no responses and no developmental explanations

• Activities that are often Discrepant Events - and challenge activities & PLS which may also be used as discrepant activities
• Discrepant activity - Animals
• Discrepant activity - Plants K-3 | Plants 4+ |
• Discrepant activity - Cells
• Discrepant activity - Living
• Discrepant activity - - Nature of science - evidence, theory, hypothesis - dinosaur extinction
• Discrepant activity - Electric circuit - one bulb, battery, wire
• Discrepant activity - Floating - density - capacity of objects
• Discrepant activity - Chemical change