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Design
Principles
EventScope Helps
Students Learn
EventScope Helps
Teachers Teach
Pilot Testing and
Refinement Process
Assessing Knowledge,
Understanding, and Skills
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Design
Principles
To
reach specific middle-school science learning
goals, the project guides students from concept
to concept and from one level of skill mastery
to the next. General guiding principles for
each lesson's development include:
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Student-centered
and Activity/Problem-Based Learning:
enables students to generate hypotheses
and explain the reasons for their hypotheses
in the context of solving a sequence of
real and increasingly complex problems.
Discovery
Learning: empowers students
to actively experience scientific discovery.
Apprenticeship:
enables teachers to act as models and
coaches to scaffold the students through
the learning process.
Situated
Learning:
makes past and present scientific endeavors
real and relevant by providing historical,
and technological, context to activities
and problems.
Community
of Learners:
balances individual work and group activity
to maximize the benefits of both.
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EventScope's
goal is to build innovative and interactive
curriculum based on the recommendations of teachers
and on insights gained from pilot deployments
in the classroom. The end product is a problem-based
learning tool that uses technology to provide
students with a hands-on experience of total
immersion in scientific investigation.
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