Term
Summer 2023
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAT
Facilitator(s)
Julianne Scullen
Content Expert
Sarah Hick
Abstract
Historically science education has seemed to be in a pendulum swing battle between prioritizing teaching science content or science practices. The Next Generation Science Standards sought to synthesize both priorities in their Framework. Minnesota high schools will face a new wave of Science MCA tests in the 2024-2025 school year that will reflect the 2019 Minnesota science standards and thereby the Next Generation Science Standards. The curricular resource presented in this project is a valuable template for how high school science teachers can pursue meeting the parallel goals of teaching science content and science practices as the new standards emphasize. While much previous scholarship focuses on how to incorporate scientific practices into lab explorations, there is a dearth of resources for incorporating science practices in non-experimental science content. The resource I developed consists of (1) a Model-based inquiry (MBI)-inspired protocol that can be used flexibly with various types of science content and (2) insertable data sets to be used with the protocol. To exemplify how to pair content with the protocol, three data sets are presented: one non-science content example and two chemistry examples. The protocol demonstrates how disparate content can be inserted into the same protocol so as to engage students in a process of model development that is informed by data exposures, inductive thinking, collaboration, peer review, and focused testing of their models. The goal is for students to be able to, through an iterative process, develop a data-fitted model that is useful for describing and explaining a system.
Project Type
Curriculum
Keywords
Curriculum, Learning Styles, Science, Teachers/ Teaching
Recommended Citation
Banker, Andrew, "Teaching Non-Experimental Chemistry Content Through the Pairing of Strategically Curated Data Sets and Model-Based Inquiry" (2023). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 1006.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/1006
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DigitalCommons@Hamline
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School of Education Student Capstone Projects