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- Title
Focusing on Function: Thinking Below the Surface of Complex Natural Systems.
- Authors
Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Jordan, Rebecca; Lei Liu; Gray, Steven; Demeter, Marylee; Rugaber, Spencer; Vattam, Swaroop; Goel, Ashok
- Abstract
The article focuses on the research about structure-behavior-function (SBF) thinking, which is applied to middle school students. The author elaborates that SBF thinking can help support student learning about complex systems. The research reveals that understanding complex systems is an essential components of science literacy in promoting comprehension of how many real-world phenomena operate. Here, the author presented a practical example of how the research can be promoted by using an aquarium approach as an ecosystem model. The author expresses that SBF approach can be used to support science instruction across a range of natural-science domains and to help students look below the surface to build a deeper understanding of the behaviors and functions of the complex systems.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education; SYSTEMS theory education; THOUGHT &; thinking; COMPLEXITY (Philosophy); EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; EDUCATION research; MIDDLE school education; MIDDLE school students
- Publication
Science Scope, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 9, p27
- ISSN
0887-2376
- Publication type
Article