What ideas are represented in your initial models?

D2

Common Ideas Card Activity

• People often have varying ideas and ways of explaining commonly encountered events (like a ball toss).
• Researchers have cataloged some of the most common ideas (descriptions and/or explanations) held, particularly from students, about why balls move the way they do when tossed up into the air.

D2

Common Ideas Card Activity

In your modeling groups & using the cards provided:

• Compare the ideas on the ‘Common Idea Cards’ provided to those you’ve explicitly (or maybe implicitly) included in your initial models.
• Use the ‘Common Ideas Tracker Sheet’ to note whether/how you used the ‘Common ideas’ in your initial model.
• Let’s look at Card A together first…note your thoughts on the ‘Common Ideas Tracker Sheet’!
• Card B
• Card C
• Now Cards D-G

D2

Common Ideas Card Activity

Did you include other ideas that were not represented in the cards?

• Think about what you’ve explicitly (or maybe implicitly) included in your initial models that was not represented on one of the cards.
• Use the last box on the ‘Common Ideas Tracker Sheet’ to note whether/how you included other ideas in your initial model.

D2