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LabLearner’s 3-D Approach to Scientific Inquiry
Phase 1 – Defined Understanding
The defined boundaries of this phase provide a framework for engaging parents and identifying students’ current knowledge of the key topic(s) explored in this CELL.
Phase 2 – Dynamic Understanding
Change, activity, and progress characterize the dynamic phase. Its design will enable you to enhance students’ existing skills, interests, and understanding, as well as meaningfully build new ones.
Phase 3 – Deeper Understanding
By this point, students have moved through powerful and purposeful tasks that had them actively and intentionally construct an understanding of concepts. In this final phase, students will consolidate knowledge and make deeper connections among ideas.
Phase 1 – Defined Understanding
► Questions to Investigate in this CELL
- What causes the changes in day and night on the Earth?
- What causes the change in seasons in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
- Based on your model, why do you think we observe different phases of the Moon from the Earth?
- What causes the orbit of the planets around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth?
- What causes the orbit of the planets around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth? Why are they important in maintaining the orbit of the planets and the Moon?
► Parent Newsletter
Encourage parents to connect to their child’s learning by providing them with a framework of the CELL. Use this link to access and share the Parent Newsletter.
► Baseline Assessment
Assess students’ current knowledge of the topic(s) being explored then set instructional and student learning goals. Use this link to schedule then invite students to take the Pre-test for the CELL.
Phase 2 – Dynamic Understanding
► Introduction and Fun Facts
Enhance your conceptual understanding by reading the student-level research on the topic(s) being explored. Use this link to access the research.
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► Links to Investigations
Go directly to the Investigation you are working on by clicking on a link below:
► Investigation 1
► Investigation 2
► Investigation 3
► Investigation 4
► CELL Vocabulary
Investigation 1:
- Rotation: the turning of a planet on its axis
- Orbit: the pathway of an object around another, such as the Moon around the Earth or the planets around the Sun
Investigation 2:
- Revolution: the movement of a planet or Moon around another body, such as the Sun or a planet
Investigation 3:
- Gravitational force: the force that exists between all objects because of their mass. The force of gravity acts to pull objects together.
Investigation 4:
- Newton’s First Law of Motion: a scientific principle first described by Sir Isaac Newton, which states that an object in a state of uniform motion stays in that state unless acted upon by an outside force.
- Force: a kind of a push or a pull on an object. A force causes an object to accelerate in the direction of the force.
► Access Scoring Rubric
Examine the scoring rubric for this CELL so that you know what your teacher is looking for in terms of performance.
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Phase 3 – Deeper Understanding
►Deep Analysis Classroom Discussion
These questions can be used to elicit in-depth discussions based on the lab experience. Teachers may use any or all of these discussion points depending on the time available. All Investigations‘ Deep Analysis questions as well as the Comprehension Check for the entire CELL are found on this link.
►CELL Summary
Review the key ideas and learning goals for the CELL via this link.
► Summative Assessment
Evaluate student learning at the end of the CELL by comparing the Summative Assessment to students’ Baseline Assessments. Use this link to schedule then invite students to take the Post-test for the CELL.