Preservice Elementary Teachers Generate Questions to Determine How or Why a Phenomenon Occurs (Poster 7)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Contemporary Issues in Science Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The ability to construct scientifically oriented questions is an essential science practice, as noted in current and previous science education reform documents; however, the practice is rarely enacted in classrooms. Instead, investigations or hands-on activities dominate. To center the science practices and make coherent the science experiences of prospective elementary teachers in an undergraduate elementary education program, we implemented a model-based inquiry approach across the physical science for elementary teachers and elementary science education methods courses. Prospective elementary teachers constructed scientifically oriented questions as science learners in the physical science course when presented with phenomena that would guide a set of investigations and the development of a visual model and written explanation to describe how or why the phenomenon occurred.

Author

• Jaclyn Kuspiel Murray, Mercer University