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- Title
Explaining Electrical Circuits: A unit structured around inquiry activities teaches students to share results through written explanations.
- Authors
Hodgson-Drysdale, Tracy; Ballard, Edward
- Abstract
The article offers the authors' insights on a unit of explanation aimed at teaching fourth-grade students to show their learning of language and scientific concepts by writing explanations of scientific process. They say that in the unit, students must be taught the language choices and genre of explanation. They note that teaching them to write in genres usually used in science such as explanation helped students learn language and content more deeply.
- Subjects
EXPLANATION; SCIENCE education (Elementary); ENGLISH language education in elementary schools; ENGLISH language writing; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; FOURTH grade (Education)
- Publication
Science & Children, 2011, Vol 48, Issue 8, p37
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article