Productive Uncertainty in Science Education

Engaging Students in Meaningful Science Practice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvEve Manz

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Productive Uncertainty in Science Education provides the support that teachers and students need for more complex science investigations.Science is driven by the need to manage uncertainty—uncertainty about how to explain the world, but also how to represent the world in an investigation, what to measure, and how to convince peers to see what the scientist wants them to see. For children, uncertainty supports engagement with materials, more purposeful science practice, and deeper conceptual understanding, yet classroom investigations typically reflect little of the uncertainty that scientists grapple with. How can we move past cookbook science investigations and provide the support that teachers and students need for more complex work?This book introduces a framework describing specific forms of science activity, shares stories of children engaging with uncertainty, and provides practical supports to help K–12 teachers deepen their science teaching practice. The text includes tools for building classroom norms, planning and adapting investigations, leading discussions, and designing student sheets and other forms of support. The framework, tools, and examples are drawn from research conducted in partnership with elementary teachers and instructional leaders and have been applied in secondary science classrooms as well.Book Features: A new way of building engagement and supporting science practice through centering uncertainty, an essential human and scientific experience.Inspiring examples of students engaging in science practices, developed with teacher collaborators.A suite of tools to support the design, adaptation, and implementation of rich investigations for the science classroom.Sample classroom dialogue showing how teachers can facilitate student discussions that foster and build from uncertainty.A companion website with additional investigations, real classroom case studies, and helpful resources and tools (investigationsproject.org).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-23
Mått162 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagTeachers' College Press
ISBN9780807786857

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Eve Manz is an associate professor of science education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. She has received the 2019 NARST Early Career Research Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Collaborators on the book include elementary teachers and coaches and doctoral researchers with expertise in language, classroom culture, and secondary school science teaching.

ContentsPreface ix1. The Power of Uncertainty in Classroom Science 1Uncertainty Is Inherent to Scientists' and Engineers' Work 4Uncertainty Supports Students' Learning 5Challenges to Incorporating Uncertainty in Science Learning 9Our Approach to Incorporating Productive Uncertainty in Science Investigations 11How the Book Will Help You Understand and Take Up This Approach 14Summary and Getting Started 152. Uncertainty in Science Investigations 17What Are Science Investigations? 17The Investigations Framework 20How Students Experience and Express Uncertainty 31The Meeting Points of the Investigations Framework and Students' Uncertainty 33Summary 363. Conditions That Foster Productive Uncertainty 42Moving Beyond an All-or-Nothing Approach: Principles for Working With Uncertainty in Investigations 42Teacher Practice in a Moment of Uncertainty 50Teacher Dispositions 51Putting It Together: Returning to the Maple Seed 56Summary 604. Developing a Caring and Collective Classroom Culture 61With Annabel StolerUncertainty in Action 62Classroom Culture 65Classroom Norms That Support a Caring and Collective Classroom Culture 69Introducing, Using, and Refining Norms to Support a Caring and Collective Classroom Culture 73Summary 795. Helping Children Plan and Conduct Science Investigations 81With Annabel StolerUncertainty in Action 82Opportunities and Challenges in Planning and Conducting Investigations 84Supporting Students Planning Science Investigations 87Classroom Examples of Planning Investigations 94Supporting Students Conducting Investigations 100Summary 1046. Working With Observations and Data 106Uncertainty in Action 107Opportunities and Challenges in Working With Observations and Data 110Supporting Students Working With Observations, Measurements, and Data 113Classroom Examples of Supporting Observations and Data 120Making Claims in Light of Variability in Data 128Summary 1297. Making Sense of Evidence From Investigations 130Uncertainty in Action 131Opportunities and Challenges in Making Sense of Investigations 133Supporting Students Making Sense of Evidence From an Investigation 136A Classroom Example 147Summary 1568. Explanations and Resources for Explanation 158Uncertainty in Action 158Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Explanations 162Supporting Students Developing Explanations of Phenomena 166A Classroom Example: Explanation in the Conservation of Matter Investigation 177Summary 1849. Putting the Pieces Together 186Learn to See and Value Uncertainty 186Adapt an Investigation for Uncertainty 188Learn With and From Students 194Acknowledgments 197References 199Index 203About the Author 209

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