Teacher Guidance During Science Investigation and Engineering Design
- Select and present real and relevant phenomena or challenges
- Guide observation and development of student questions
- Facilitate students developing and using meaningful and relevant questions
- Communicate clear expectations for use of information as evidence
- Facilitate connections between relevant ideas and crosscutting concepts
- Communicate clear expectations for students to develop evidence-based explanations and models
- Set clear expectations for students to develop arguments for how their evidence supports explanations
- Support design and testing of solutions to challenges, including re-design and re-testing as students refine their approach
- Provide opportunities for students to produce multiple models and other artifacts that communicate their reasoning
- Establish a classroom culture of respect and guide productive and inclusive discourse
- Reflect on student and teacher learning
- Highlight connections to experiences and phenomena students have encountered in previous learning environments
- Plan coherent support for students to connect learning to phenomena beyond the classroom
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