Curriculum and Instruction Science Team

NanoPD Professional Learning Webinar

Essential Learning Event #4

Students revise ideas, models, explanations, and design solutions through critique and argumentation.

Essential Learning Event #1

Students explore phenomena or design problems, make observations, and collect data through investigations.

Essential Learning Event #2

Students make sense of patterns and relationships in observations and data through representation, analysis, and interpretation.

Essential Learning Event #4

Students revise ideas, models, explanations, and design solutions through critique and argumentation.

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Essential Learning Event #3

Students construct models and causal explanations of phenomenon or design solutions to problems using evidence and reasoning.

As students share models and explanations or solutions, they use argumentation and critique with peers to refine and revise their thinking. Such discussions may lead to further investigations or design iterations. Models and explanations about phenomena or solutions to problems are improved and refined as additional ideas and evidence is provided.

Essential Learning Event #4

Students revise ideas, models, explanations, and design solutions through critique and argumentation.

Take a moment to pause and reflect.

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Identify and make note of the words in the description of Essential Learning Event #4 that capture student action or the intellectual work of doing science.

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Then reflect on each word you have identified and think about when and how students might do this work in your science classroom in an upcoming lesson.

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Record your ideas. You will use this information later as you begin developing a plan for your classroom.

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Pause the NanoPD to complete this task. When you have finished the activity, start the video again.

Pause and Reflect

Essential Learning Event #4

Students revise ideas, models, explanations, and design solutions through critique and argumentation.

Take a moment to pause and reflect.

With your students in mind, read the list of sample student actions for Essential Learning Event #4. Highlight in green the actions students can do competently and consistently appropriate to the grade level. Highlight in yellow the actions students need additional work with and can do with help or support. Highlight in pink the actions students cannot do without focused instruction.

Once you have completed the highlighting, place a star ☆ next to three of the student actions that might be a focus of instruction in an upcoming science lesson. You will use the starred student actions to begin developing a plan for your classroom.

Pause the NanoPD to complete this task. When you have finished the activity, start the video again.

Pause and Reflect

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Essential Learning Event #4

Students revise ideas, models, explanations, and design solutions through critique and argumentation.

Take a moment to pause and reflect.

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Read each of the sample questions associated with the Science and Engineering Practices for Essential Learning Event #4.

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For the actions you starred in the previous pause and reflect activity, identify which questions you might use to help prompt student thinking related to those actions. Highlight these questions or come up with several of your own.

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Pause the NanoPD to complete this task. When you have finished the activity, start the video again.

Pause and Reflect

Take a moment to begin making a plan for your classroom.

With the student actions and questions you highlighted in this NanoPD, you are now ready to consider where and when you bring them into an upcoming science lesson in your classroom.

Respond to the following questions to begin making a plan:

1. What lesson will you be teaching? Describe what students will be learning and doing in the lesson.
2. What Science and Engineering Practice will students be using as they build understanding of the science concepts and ideas in the lesson?
3. What student action or student actions will you focus on?
4. What question or questions will you use in your lesson to prompt student thinking with the Science and Engineering Practice?

Be ready to share your responses at your teacher collaboration meeting.

Pause the NanoPD to complete this task. When you have finished the activity, start the video again.

Begin Making A Plan

Take a moment to complete one final reflection.

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As this NanoPD comes to a close, write down any ideas you want to remember or questions you have that you want to bring to your teacher collaboration meeting.

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Pause the NanoPD to complete this task. When you have finished the activity, start the video again.

One Final Reflection

Curriculum and Instruction Science Team

NanoPD Professional Learning Webinar

Essential Learning Event #4

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