EDU 590EDU 590CHAPTER 11: Generating and Testing Hypotheses

“Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works.” by Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell, Matt Kuhn and Kim Malenoski

Central Michigan University

Chapter Eleven – Generating and Testing Chapter Eleven – Generating and Testing HypothesesHypotheses

Planning Question:

Which Strategies Will Help Students Practice,

Review, and Apply Learning? Learning Strategies:

Generating and Testing

Hypotheses

Suggested Technology:

3. Spreadsheet Software4. Data Collection Tools5. Web Resources

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Generating and Testing Hypotheses:McREL’s research supports the

following generalizations:4.Can be approached with either an inductive or deductive manner.5.Teachers should ask students clearly explain their hypotheses and conclusions.

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Generating and Testing Hypotheses:McREL’s Recommendations:

3.Make sure that students can explain their hypotheses and conclusions.4.Use a variety to tasks to guide students through generating and testing their hypotheses.

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Spreadsheet Software: Spreadsheets are used for making

informed predictions, collecting data, analyzing data for patterns, and revising hypotheses.◦ Teachers can create interactive spreadsheets

so students can manipulate it, this doesn’t waste class time for learning how to create spreadsheets.

Students can then turn their data into graphs to interpret and check hypotheses.

Planning Question:

Which Strategies Will Help Students

Practice, Review, and Apply Learning?

Learning Strategies:

Generating and Testing

Hypotheses

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Data Collection Tools: Allows students to generate and test

hypotheses.◦ Allows students to identify similarities and

differences and create a nonlinguistic representation.

Allows students to see patterns which allows them to form a hypotheses, collect data then revise previous hypotheses.

Planning Question:

Which Strategies Will Help Students

Practice, Review, and Apply Learning?

Learning Strategies:

Generating and Testing

Hypotheses

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Web Resources: Allow to test hypotheses by creating

virtual situations that would be impossible to do in real life.◦ Smog City (www.smogcity.com)◦ NASA SCIence Files Problem Board (

http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/treehouse.html)◦ NOVA Building Big (

www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig)◦ Primary Access (www.primaryaccess.com)◦ Explore Learning (

www.explorelearning.com), etc.

Planning Question:

Which Strategies Will Help Students

Practice, Review, and Apply Learning?

Learning Strategies:

Generating and Testing

Hypotheses