Abstract
Constructing scientific explanations of natural phenomena is an important aim of science education. Explanation oriented science teaching approaches encourage learners to engage in sense-making discussions and construct the causal accounts of the phenomena under study. This article demonstrates a lesson-design model that guides biology teachers on how to integrate explanation oriented teaching in their everyday practice. The proposed model includes six phases: (1) presenting a hooking activity;(2) formulating a how-why type focus question;(3) constructing the initial causal story;(4) using authentic data, scientific facts, principles, and disciplinary core ideas to revise-refine the causal story;(5) discussing-rewriting the refined causal story;(6) applying the causal-mechanistic knowledge in a new context or problem scenario. An eleventh-grade lesson on the topic 'protein biosynthesis in cells' serves an example about how this model can be operationalized to design and implement explanation oriented biology lessons.
| Dokumententyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
|---|---|
| Fakultät: | Biologie > Department Biologie I |
| Themengebiete: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| ISSN: | 0021-9266 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Dokumenten ID: | 83712 |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 15. Dez. 2021, 15:09 |
| Letzte Änderungen: | 15. Dez. 2021, 15:09 |
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