Making Sense of Dinosaur Tracks

Autor/inn/en	MacKenzie, Ann Haley; McDowell, Brian
Titel	Making Sense of Dinosaur Tracks
Quelle	In: Science Scope, 36 (2012) 4, S.40-47 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0887-2376
Schlagwörter	Paleontology; Scientific Concepts; Interdisciplinary Approach; Science Instruction; Inquiry; Teaching Methods; Observation; Inferences; Data Collection; Active Learning; Middle Schools; Secondary School Science + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Paläontologie; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Beobachtung; Inference; Inferenz; Data capture; Datensammlung; Aktives Lernen; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule
Abstract	What do paleontologists, dinosaur tracks, and the nature of science have in common? They're combined here in an inquiry activity where students use methods of observation and inference to devise evidence-based explanations for the data they collect about dinosaur tracks, much like the methods used by paleontologists. Students then debate the plausibility of their fellow student-scientists' explanations of what dinosaurs were doing over 65 million years ago. As a result, students discover how scientific explanations are created and that these explanations are open to change based on continued testing, data gathering, and analysis. (Contains 8 figures and 5 online resources.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10