U.S. Department of Education: Promoting Educational Excellence for all Americans

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How can laboratory research in cognitive and developmental psychology contribute to science education.(and vice versa)?

 
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But real teachers teaching real science can’t isolate the cells!

Example: 4th grade classroom lesson on what determines a pendulum’s period?

  Hypothesis
Generation
 Experiment
Design		 Evidence
Evaluation
Domain
Specific		 Length?
Initial force?
Mass?
 Select length,
mass, force, etc.
  • Counting
  • Timing
  • Measuring
Domain
General		 Asking good
questions
  • Vary one thing
  • Keep others the same
  • Recording data
  • Making Tables
  • Averages