Five activities include 1) Asking, 2) Designing, 3) Negotiating, 4) Explaining, and 5) Summarizing. A series of lessons, aligning with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and the NGSS, were designed with the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. After these lessons,...
As equity is one of the fundamental criteria in the commitment to students at my university, when courses had to be taught on-line, new aspects had to be taken under scrutiny as regards the human-machine interface.Promoting socialization is important for online activities. Not only was it ...
In this study, we manipulated both of these facets to teach the scientific method to at-risk students and students with learning disabilities. The content was framed with concepts and principles, and instruction was explicit, using rules to guide classroom activities. A combination of classroom ...