Overview
- Integrates social and cognitive perspectives for explaining science instruction
- Describes teaching methods that develop deep understanding and that are midway between pure discovery and lecture approaches
- Deepens our theory of instruction by developing diagramming systems for tracking model based learning in classrooms
Part of the book series: Models and Modeling in Science Education (MMSE, volume 2)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Concepts and Background for Model Based Learning
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Introduction to Model Based Teaching Strategies
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Qualitative Research on Specific Strategies
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes new, model based teaching methods for science instruction. It presents research that describes these new methods in a very diverse group of settings: middle school biology, high school physics, and college chemistry classrooms. Mental models in these areas such as understanding the structure of the lungs or cells, molecular structures and reaction mechanisms in chemistry, or causes of current flow in electricity are notoriously difficult for many students to learn. Yet these lie at the core of conceptual understanding in these areas. The studies focus on a variety of teaching strategies such as discrepant questioning, analogies, animations, model competition, and hands on activities. Five different levels of organization for teaching strategies are described, from those operating over months (design of the sequence of units in a curriculum) to those operating over minutes (teaching tactics for guiding discussion minute by minute).
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Model Based Learning and Instruction in Science
Editors: John J. Clement, Mary Anne Rea-Ramirez
Series Title: Models and Modeling in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6494-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6493-7Published: 13 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1310-6Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6494-4Published: 07 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-2983
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2260
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 279
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Science Education, Popular Science in Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Education, general