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    This is inquiry right? Strategies for effectively adapting elementary science lessons

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    Strategies for effectivelyadapting elementaryscience lessons

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    By Laura Zangori, Cory Forbes, and Mandy Biggers 

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     This Is Inquiry... Right?

    that they generate their own questions independently,

    work with peers and teachers to select a question, re-

    fine an existing question, or are provided a question

    by the teacher or lesson plan (NRC 2012).The original version of the student pages for the

    magnets lesson included multiple investigation ques-

    tions located in the title of the worksheet and three

    additional subquestions. This made it diff icult to de-termine what students should focus on while perform-

    ing the investigation. These resources are all available

    for review online (see Internet Resource). Our first

    modification was to remove the existing questionson the student worksheet to provide a single, clear,

    concrete, “how” investigation question: “How does

    adding layers of tape affect the strength of a magnet?”

    (see Table 1, p. 50). First, this change helps clarify the

    question. Second, the modified question highlights

    (a) the relationship between tape layers and magnet

    strength (which the original question did not); and (b)the explicit learning goal of the lesson—that forces can

    act at a distance.

    Giving Priority to EvidenceThe original lesson had a well-defined data collection

    table with explicit instructions for what data to record

    and where to record it, so no modifications were nec-

    essary (see Internet Resource). Students who do not

    require such a high level of guidance might decide

    what data to collect and how to collect it themselves.However, an important next step after collecting data

    is to analyze and look for patterns and relationshipsthrough graphs, diagrams, charts, or classification

    schemes. The original lesson asked students to graph

    their data (see Internet Resource). However, the

    step before graphing asked students to make predic-

    tions from their data for a new investigation and trythe new investigation before analyzing data for their

    current investigation. If students had followed this

    detour, they may not have been able to answer their

    investigation question because they began a new in-

    vestigation in the midst of the current one! To help

    the students analyze their data, we asked them what

    they noticed about their graphs as soon as they weredone graphing and did not ask questions about newinvestigations until the end of the lesson (see Table 1,

    p. 50). We did ask the students what was happening

    to the paperclip as we added more pieces of tape. One

    student, holding up her graph said, “It holds less!”

    She then pointed out that when she added more tape

    the magnet held fewer paperclips. As a modification,

    students who are ready for a more student-directed

    lesson might decide for themselves how to analyze thedata (NRC 2012).

    s teachers, many of us have taught our share of

    science lessons that needed improvements. For

    the past eight years, we have been working with

    elementary teachers to implement quick andeasy strategies to modify existing science lessons to

    make them more inquiry-based. Elementary teachers

    can use these strategies to adapt existing science les-

    sons to address the five essential features of inquiryand scientific practices defined by the National Re-

    search Council ([NRC] 2000; 2012). Incorporating

    these practices of science into an existing lesson “helps

    students understand how scientific knowledge devel-ops” (NRC 2012, p. 42) through active engagement in

    the processes of science.

    To illustrate these adaptation strategies, we use a

    freely available elementary science lesson on magnetism,

    which one teacher taught in her third-grade classroom

    (see Internet Resource). In this lesson, students inves-

    tigate the strength of a magnet by adding layers of tapeand observing how the pieces of tape affect the ability of

    the magnet to attract paper clips. We purposefully chose

    this standards-based, reform-oriented science lesson to

    highlight that these adaptation strategies are helpful to

    modify even well-designed science lessons.

     A Note on DirectionThese lesson adaptation strategies are not a series of

    steps. Rather, teachers may choose to use one or more

    of them to modify specific science lesson plans to better

    engage their students in either more teacher- or student-

    directed variations of the essential features of inquiry.A common assumption among science teachers is that

    “true” inquiry is predominantly student-directed. We,

    like the NRC (2000; 2007; 2012), do not advocate more

    open, student-directed inquiry as the gold standard

    over other variations of inquiry. As we have observed,

    and as research shows, early learners often require more

    guidance to engage productively in inquiry—particu-

    larly those who have limited past experience doing so(Metz 2008) —and require science lessons that are more

    teacher-directed. However, inquiry-oriented lessons

    can be highly student-directed, teacher-directed, or

    anywhere in between. In the end, it is our students’ ex-isting ideas and unique needs that should determine the

    amount of structure and guidance we provide to sup-

    port their learning through inquiry.

    Scientific QuestionsTo engage students in scientific questions, an effec-

    tively designed science lesson should include an an-swerable investigation question that guides students’

    work in the classroom. Depending on the level of sup-

    port students require, the lesson modification may be

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     Table 1.

    Modification strategies for the magnet lesson.

    Feature Existing lesson Suggested lesson modifications

    Question  The lesson had four investigation questions:

    • How strong is your magnet?

    • Can your small magnet attract a paper

    clip from across the room?

    • Can your small magnet attract a paper

    clip from across your desk?

    • How can you find out how strong your

    magnet is?

    Change to a single, focused investigation “what” or“how” question:

    • How does adding layers of tape alter the strength of

    a magnet?

    Data Evidence  The lesson asked questions to guide stu-dents through data analysis such as:

    • Was your magnet able to hold more or lesspaperclips as you added pieces of tape?

    • Is it the tape that is causing a change

    in the number of paper clips held?

    • Add data collection table to the student pages.

    • Add blank graph to the student pages for students to

    graph their results.

    • Keep existing questions.

    • Move new experiment reference to new investigationto “Communicate/Justify” section.

    Explanation  The lesson asked students to:

    • predict what will happen and why.

    • include their data and analysis in their

     journal or on their worksheets and writean explanation for their results.

    • Keep prediction based on prior knowledge.

    • Use class discussions for predicting and explanation

    construction.

    • Have students record predictions.

    • Keep data record and data analysis.

    • Ask students to use what they know (their evidence), andhow and why they know it to construct an explanation:

    • “How do you explain your investigation’s results?Use your data in your explanation.”

    • “As you began adding layers of tape, what

    happened? Why?”

    • “What happens to the strength of the magnet as

     you add more layers of tape? Why?”

    • Our investigation question was “How does adding

    layers of tape alter the strength of a magnet?”Based on your results explain your answer to this

    question.

     Alternate

    Explanation The lesson did not evaluate an alternate

    explanation. Add to the student pages or in student journal:

    • “Why didn’t each group get the exact same results?”• “Are there any anomalies in the data (e.g., a group

    had more paper clips after adding three more pieces

    of tape)? What could that mean?”

    • “Does hearing about [others’ results, scientific expla-

    nations, and so on] make you think differently about your explanation?”

    Communicate/

     Justify  The lesson only addressed evidence by

    asking students to present a graph of their

    results.

     Add to the student pages or journal: “How does adding

    layers of tape alter the strength of a magnet? Based on

     your results explain your answer to this question.”

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    Formulating Evidence-BasedExplanations

    Formulating scientific explanations is a challengingpractice for elementary students because, in everydaydiscourse, “to explain” often means to describe what

    happened. As a result, explanations in the classroom can

    become easily confused as a restatement of what the data

    shows rather than an inference based on the evidence. A

    scientific explanation requires students to make connec-

    tions back to the evidence and articulate a claim about

    what they have observed. By formulating evidence-basedexplanations, students have the opportunity to connect

    what they knew, what they now know, and how and why

    they know it. To make this connection easier, have stu-

    dents share and record their initial ideas (e.g., what theyknew) before they start the lesson, for example, justified

    predictions (see Table 1). Students not only predict what

    they think will happen in the investigation, but also why.

    Unfortunately, though many science lessons ask studentsto make predictions, most do not ask students to provide

    reasoning for their predictions; however, this lesson did.

    We extended this lesson by engaging students in a

    whole-class discussion in which students shared underly-

    ing reasons and evidence for their predictions. Students

    suggested, for example, that pieces of tape “will affect themagnet’s strength by the paper clip with the hook. Thetape makes the paper clip farther away from the magnet,”

    and the tape “will affect the magnet’s strength by not

    having the paper clip touching the magnet.” Students

    recorded their predictions and underlying reasoning on

    the same worksheet that they used throughout the lesson,

    so they could refer back to them later (see Figure 1).

    After performing the investigation, students shoulduse their evidence (e.g., what they know now) to con-

    struct explanations (e.g., how and why they know it)

    that fully answer the investigation question. The original

    magnets lesson plan mentioned explanations but didnot explicitly link explanations to evidence, nor did it

    provide students a concrete opportunity to formulate

    an evidence-based explanation. To support students in

    linking their evidence to their explanation, we added aprompt to the student worksheet asking students to in-

    clude their evidence in their answer (Figure 2; Table 1).

    Figure 1.

    Sample prediction.

    Figure 2.

    Sample evidence-based prediction.

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    During the lesson, the students observed their mag-

    net holding fewer paper clips as more pieces of tape

    were added. Students used their evidence to formulate

    explanations such as “The more tape, the less strength.

    When we had no tape, 17 attached. When we used

    21 pieces of tape only 2 attached. I believe the tapecaused less paper clips because you block the magnets’

    strength.” Another student wrote, “In my experiment

    the results show more tape the less amount of paper clip

    because tape blocks the magnetic force.” By analyzing

    these and other students’ evidence-based explanations,

    we found that students grasped the underlying concept

    highlighted in the magnets lesson.When we held a group discussion of students’ new

    explanations from their experiment, one student ex-

    plained, “The tape is blocking the magnet.” When we

    asked her how she knew this, she modeled it for us using

    her roll of tape and her magnets showing the tape as a

    barrier, saying, “This is on my graph.” Because a criti-

    cal part of students’ explanations is to fully answer theoriginal investigation question, we reminded students

    (see Table 1), and encouraged them to use evidence

    from the investigation to construct an explanation

    that answers this question. This is an important f inal

    step in explanation construction because it brings the

    lesson full circle. Referring back to the original inves-

    tigation question provides students the opportunity to

    make important connections between what they knew

    (prediction), what they now know (evidence), and howand why they know it (explanation). Students’ answers

    to the investigation question included “The magnet is

    farther away so the magnetic field gets weaker when

    you add tape” and “Layers of tape alter the strength

    of magnets by blocking the magnetic fields.” Again,

    depending on the level of support the students require,

    the lesson modification may provide a great deal ofsupport by explicitly telling the student how to use evi-

    dence to formulate an explanation. For modification,

    students who have experience crafting evidence-based

    explanations and do not require that level of support

    might formulate an evidence-based explanation ontheir own without explicit instruction (NRC 2012).

    Evaluating Evidence-Based

    ExplanationsStudents should evaluate evidence-based explanations by

    asking questions such as “Does my evidence support my

    explanation?” and “Does my explanation answer the in-

    vestigation question?” To self-assess the explanations they

    formulate, students need to have opportunities to compare

    their own explanation to other explanations. This can be

    accomplished by comparing their explanations to (a) class-mates’ explanations, (b) their predictions or pre-existing

    explanations, or (c) the scientifically accepted explanation

    for the topic they are investigating (see Table 1).

    The original magnet lesson did not ask students to

    evaluate explanations, so we made three specific lesson

    adaptations. First, toward the end, we asked students to re-

    turn to the predictions they made before the investigation.This allowed them to compare their ideas over time and

    reflect upon how they changed. During this whole-class

    discussion, when asked to report how the results compared

    to their predictions, one group responded, “The number

    surprised us because we had guessed a higher number but

    the number was really low.” We also engaged students in

    peer sharing of their explanations and asked the students

    to record how their thinking changed after hearing other

    groups’ explanations. The individual groups’ explana-tions were similar, suggesting students had developed

    conceptual understanding of the effect of the tape on the

    strength of the magnet.

    Finally, we introduced an age-appropriate, content-

    rich reading that provided scientific language for the

    evidence-based explanations the students had con-

    structed. We then asked the students what they nowthought about their explanations. After the reading, we

    began to see students incorporate the language of sci-

    ence into their previously constructed explanations. For

    example, the student who originally wrote, “The more

    Figure 3.

    Sample evidence-based prediction.

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    tape, the less strength” changed her explanation after

    hearing the scientific explanation to “Yes, the farther

    the magnet, the weaker the magnetic field” (Figure 3).

    This step helped connect the science terminology withthe students’ evidence-based explanations and provided

    an opportunity for cross-curricular connections with

    language arts. To modify for a more student-directed les-

    son, the students might be asked to seek out a scientificexplanation and form these links themselves. In a more

    teacher-directed lesson, the modification may provide

    more guidance and support to the student pages to make

    these connections (NRC 2012).

    Communicating and JustifyingExplanationsCommunicating about science, which should occur

    throughout an investigation, is often an exciting experi-ence for early learners. However, a crucial part of the

    communication involves students communicating and justifying explanations. The original lesson did not in-

    clude a discussion component for students to commu-

    nicate and justify their explanations with their peers,

    but it did include class data analysis by creating a class

    chart on a classroom medium for all groups to record

    their data. A convenient consequence of the commu-nicating and justifying feature is that by modifying a

    lesson to meet the other features, this feature will al-

    most always be met automatically! When we modified

    the lesson for students to discuss their explanations

    (see “Formulating Evidence-Based Explanations” and

    “Evaluating Evidence-Based Explanations” above) wealso supported communicating explanations. When we

    modified the student worksheet to base explanations onevidence and to answer the original investigation ques-

    tion (discussed in the aforementioned “Formulating

    Evidence-Based Explanations”) we also supported jus-

    tifying (see Table 1). In a more teacher-directed lesson

    the modification may be for explicit direction on what

    to communicate and justify, whereas in a more student-

    directed lesson the modifications may allow students todetermine on their own what is required to communi-

    cate and justify their explanations (NRC 2012).

    Final Thoughts“The actual doing of science…can…pique students’curiosity, capture their interest, and motivate their con-

    tinued study” (NRC 2012, p. 42). The lesson adaptation

    strategies for the five essential features of inquiry and sci-

    entific practices discussed here provide teachers the flex-

    ibility to account for the needs of their particular group

    of students to better engage them in the practices of sci-

    ence. The most practical approach to adapting a given

    lesson may be to choose one or two features of inquiry to

    Connecting to the Standards This article relates to the following National Science

    Education Standards (NRC 1996):

     Teaching StandardsStandard A:

     Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science

    program for their students.

    Standard B:

     Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning.

    National Research Council (NRC). 1996. National

     science education standards. Washington, DC:

    National Academies Press.

    NSTA ConnectionFor a copy of the authors’ modified lesson

    plan, visit www.nsta.org/SC1209 .

    enhance and strengthen. Even if the lesson already em-

    phasizes some features of inquiry, making small, targeted

    adaptations may help you better meet the unique needsof your particular group of students. 

     Laura Zangori ([email protected])  and Mandy Biggers are science education doctoral studentsworking with Cory Forbes, assistant professor ofscience education, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Iowain Iowa City.

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    http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/magnets-2-how-strong-is- your-magnet/ 

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