PDT-TchMS-24 - Inquiry Teaching Methods: Take your investigations further with data, explanations and argumentations
Course Description
Once students have completed an investigation, what comes next? Data needs to be analyzed once collected to reveal any patterns and relationships that allow results to be communicated to others. In this session, participants will explore how raw data when organized through tabulation, statistical analysis and graphing brings out the meaning of data to use as evidence. We will practice with tables that permit large data sets to be summarized in an accessible form as well as graphs that can offer a means of visually summarizing data. Mathematics is essential for expressing relationships between the variables of data sets; median, mode and mean. We will explore the differences between explanation and argumentation and how to support students in achieving success in these two distinct practices.
To guide students in creating a scientific explanation, we will practice using a tool called the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning. This tool helps students use sufficient data to support their claims. Engaging in Scientific explanation helps students understand the content they are learning about. Scientific argumentation is a process that occurs when there are multiple ideas or claims (e.g. explanations, models) to discuss and reconcile. An argument includes a claim supported by evidence and reasoning, and students engage in debates to evaluate and critique competing arguments.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Inquiry Teaching Methods : Required Workshops