Wendy Decter, M.D.
Implementing National Science Education Standards for Inquiry Based Learning Through the Teaching of Forensic Science
Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
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-- Communicate investigations and explanations.
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-- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
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-- Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
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-- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
Content Standards
- Quality Teaching
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-- Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (NSDC)
Teaching Standards
- Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science program for their students.
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-- Work together as colleagues within and across disciplines and grade levels.
- Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning. In doing this, teachers
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-- Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry, as well as the curiosity, openness to new ideas and data, and skepticism that characterize science.
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-- Focus and support inquiries while interacting with students.
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-- Orchestrate discourse among students about scientific ideas.
- Teachers provide students with the time, space, and resources needed to learn science.
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-- Structure the time available so that students are able to engage in extended investigations.
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-- Identify and use resources outside the school.