Sentences with phrase «students develop hypotheses»

Through a largely self - directed process of inquiry and exploration, students develop hypotheses, test their interpretations, and step into the shoes of an ecosystem scientist faced with an ecological mystery.

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«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

To give students the tools to read and understand beyond the paper's abstract, Hoskins developed the five - step «CREATE» method to guide educators in teaching their students to read primary literature: consider, read, elucidate the hypothesis, analyze and interpret the data, and think of the next experiment.

Students search the literature, develop a hypothesis, test it in the lab, and write it up in a detailed research paper.

To address the hypothesis, the three specific agendas are: 1) Pre-conference agenda: We will create a data - base, develop a network, and invite nano - engineering experts, who have conducted research in the field of medicine; 2) Conference agenda: This workshop will feature invited talks from leading researchers and a poster session with participation from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Currently students may choose to work with curriculum and data sets from Mercury, Mars, or the Moon as they work toward developing their own hypotheses and research projects.

Great science teachers help their students develop the language and culture of scientists as they engage in inquiry, formulate hypotheses, and test solutions.

Interviews with ecosystem scientists support the team's ability to develop EcoXPT so that students can authentically test their own hypotheses so as to better understand causal patterns they could previously only observe, thereby extending their comprehension of underlying causal relationships.

It was about students doing science, again developing hypotheses and testing them.

Students generate questions, formulate a hypothesis, investigate their theory, and then use their observations to develop an understanding of their discovery.

From this initial work emerged the hypothesis that fostering young people's sensitivity to the designed dimensions of the world may be a powerful way to increase their sense of agency, as well as the realization that the development of agency and community are two of the core outcomes that many maker - centered educators seek to help their students develop.

The second is «inquiry - based teaching,» in which students are given a more prominent role in their own learning — for example, by developing their own hypotheses and experiments.

They teach their students how to question, and how to develop hypotheses and strategies for locating information.

The goal is to develop a hypothesis about exactly why an unexpected number of students did not meet the winter benchmark.

Silver, Dewing, and Perini have recently collaborated on Inference: Teaching Students to Develop Hypotheses, Evaluate Evidence, and Draw Logical Conclusions (A Strategic Teacher PLC Guide).

They also enable the teacher to assess student learning along multiple dimensions, including the ability to frame a problem, develop hypotheses, reflect on outcomes and make reasoned and effective changes, demonstrate scientific understanding, use scientific terminology and facts, persist in problems solving, and organize information, as well as develop sound concepts regarding the scientific principles in use.

Value evidence Museum educators encourage students to make observations and develop hypotheses through examination of primary sources (original art and artifacts).

I developed a hypothesis that students and recent grads might not attend networking events because they might think «it really doesn't lead to a job offer anyway» (with instant gratification as part of their DNA, students might give up after trying it once or twice)