What Color Do You See? A Color-Sorting Activity in Which Students Collect Data and Articulate Scientific Explanations

Autor/inn/en	Blattner, Margaret; Hug, Barbara; Ogrodnik, Jon; Korol, Donna
Titel	What Color Do You See? A Color-Sorting Activity in Which Students Collect Data and Articulate Scientific Explanations
Quelle	In: Science Teacher, 80 (2013) 3, S.62-65 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8555
Schlagwörter	Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Secondary School Science; High Schools; Science Curriculum; Color; Neurosciences; Optics; Light; Perception; Behavior; Data Collection; Computation; Learner Engagement; Learning Activities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; High school; Oberschule; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Neuroscience; Neurowissenschaften; Neurowissenschaft; Optik; Licht; Wahrnehmung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Lernaktivität
Abstract	Generating, collecting, and analyzing data is an essential practice in the science classroom (NRC 2012). Taking this data and using it to craft an explanation that demonstrates understanding of content is another essential practice. But both practices can be challenging, and students often require teacher support to succeed. Accordingly, the authors set out to develop a range of activities that would engage students in these practices more meaningfully. They did it as part of Project NEURON--a program that brings together education and neuroscience faculty and graduate students to create high school science curriculum. One of the activities the authors created--a color-sorting activity--draws on the principles of visual neuroscience and optics to demonstrate the influence of light and environment on perception and behavior. The activity allows students to collect data, use math and computational thinking, construct explanations, and engage in argument from evidence, as described in "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" (NRC 2012). This article describes the color-sorting activity in detail and suggests how teachers can adapt it for their classrooms. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10