Voices from the Classroom / / edited by Brian Hand, Lori Norton-Meier.

• HerausgeberIn: Hand, Brian.; Norton-Meier, Lori.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

There is much attention currently being given to argument-based inquiry in national and state curriculum documents. Students are being required to be able to generate and evaluate science knowledge, and to think critically and judge the value of evidence and explanations. The intent of the book is to provide a rich and broad view of the impact of argument-based inquiry in the elementary classrooms from the perspective of the teacher. All the teachers and professional development authors were engaged in promoting and using argument based inquiry as the approach to teaching science. They were implementing the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach as the argument based approach for classroom practice. As researchers we constantly work to present our views of these experiences with the voice of the teachers only being relayed through the perspective of the researcher. The intent of this book is to provide an opportunity for us as a community to listen to what the teachers are telling us. Importantly as demands are being placed on classroom experiences that provide opportunities for students to pose questions, make claims, and provide evidence, that is, to think critically and reason like scientists, we need to understand what this looks like from the perspective of the teacher. This book brings together a range of elementary teachers from kindergarten through to year 6 who have used the Science Writing Heuristic approach to teach argument-based inquiry. These teachers have all gone through professional development programs and successfully implemented the approach at a high level.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Brian Hand and Lori Norton-Meier -- Using Language to Learn / Lynn Hockenberry -- Negotiation / Michelle Harris -- Science and Literacy / Michelle Griffen -- Writing for a Reason / Amy Higginbotham and Christine Sutherland -- Lens of Learning in the SWH / Kim Wise -- The Power of Negotiation / Joshua Steenhoek , Kari Pingel and Jill Parsons -- Implementing Science Conversations with Young Learners / Julie Sander -- Claims and Evidence from the 5th Grade Classroom / Peggy Hansen -- Hide and Seek and the Air in the Closet / Carrie Johnson -- Literature and Writing are Big “Additions” to Science / Cheryl Ryan and Gina Johnson -- What’s the Big Idea? / Julie Malin -- Science Argumentation and the Arts / Sara Nelson -- Lessons Learned / Brian Hand and Lori Norton-Meier -- Contributing Authors / Brian Hand and Lori Norton-Meier.