Name
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Dennis W. Sunal
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The title covered in this study guide is -NSES, COS, and Textbook. Look over the following questions before you begin reading. Take notes relating to the answer of each question on this sheet while you read. Complete the answer when you finish reading and add to it in a discussion group meeting.
Science Teaching
1. Describe the main conceptual ideas covered inthis NSES content area.
2. What are difficulties in teaching/learning and misconceptions students have in these areas?
3. Compare the main content ideas of these chapters with similar chapter areas in your classroom textbook and in the Alabama Course of Study. Describe in detail and critically. Is the text and Alabama Course of Study coverage surface or deep? What would you have to do to meet these minimum guidelines?
4. Describe the major interconnections with othercontent areas. Give examples.
5. Describe knowledge in a specific area to be learned for a specified level of student and outline a LC science lesson which would engage students in learning an appropriate NSES objective. Use a separate sheet of paper.
6. Describe method and criteria for assessment of one NSES objective.
7. Find support for ideas presented above in the discussions of expert science teaching brought out in Lawson text and the discussions in Sunal’s "Learning Meaning Through Conceptual Reconstruction"