Making Sense of Day and Night

Autor/inn/en	Haverly, Christa; Sedlmeyer, Kim
Titel	Making Sense of Day and Night
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 56 (2019) 9, S.28-37 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Science Instruction; Formative Evaluation; Grade 1; Elementary School Science; Models; Performance; Concept Formation; Scientific Concepts; Cooperative Learning; Astronomy; Light + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Analogiemodell; Achievement; Leistung; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Kooperatives Lernen; Astronomie; Licht
Abstract	Formative assessments serve to engage students in active sense-making, making them critical tools for both teachers and students. Though formative assessments may be an informal mode of assessing, they are one of the most important, especially when teaching science. As a subject, teaching science does not have the same kind of beginning-middle-end flow that teaching language arts or math can because investigations and explanation-building are often ongoing, multiyear efforts to understand complex phenomena. Effective formative assessments allow a teacher to know where students are in terms of understanding said phenomena, and they act as guides for planning lessons that flow and build on students' efforts to construct explanations. This article describes how teachers can use first graders' scientific models as formative assessments. The authors co-planned a unit around the "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") space systems performance expectations for first grade. In this article, the authors provide a brief overview of the unit, share ideas about how they developed and used formative assessments throughout the unit, and then offer a closer look at one lesson and its formative assessments. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Science Teachers Association. 1840 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201-3000. Tel: 800-722-6782; Fax: 703-243-3924; e-mail: membership@nsta.org; Web site: http://www.nsta.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01