Current curriculum materials for elementary science students and teachers fail to provoke the following essential questions during science instruction: What is evidence? Why do you need evidence? The goal of this project is to identify whether and how elementary school students formulate answers to these questions and develop concepts of evidence and understandings of the nature of scientific evidence.
The Scientific Thinker Project: A Study of Teaching and Learning Concepts of Evidence and Nature of Scientific Evidence in Elementary School
Project Materials
| Title | Type | Post date |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching and Learning Concepts of Scientific Evidence: A Design-based Research and Development Study (NARST 2011) | Media | 03/31/2011 - 10:15am |
| Project Summary for Discovery.gov | Media | 03/31/2011 - 9:47am |
| The Scientific Thinker Project: A Study of Teaching and Learning Concepts of Evidence and Nature of Scientific Evidence in Elementary School (PI Meeting Nov 2010) | Poster | 01/17/2011 - 11:11am |