Methods and Strategies: Evidence Helps the KWL Get a KLEW

by: Kimber Hershberger, Carla Zembal-Saul, and Mary L. Starr

This article discusses the Know-Learning-Evidence-Wonder (KLEW) chart, a modification on the Know-Want-Learn (KWL) chart. This new chart was developed to align itself with the National Science of Education Standards while also helping to alter the perception and to encourage science inquiry of all kinds in the classroom by highlighting the essential features of inquiry.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2006Stock # sc06_043_05_50Volume 043Issue 05

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I know what a KWL chart is but what is a KLEW chart? This chart is the ‘Know-Learning-Evidence-Wonder’ chart. This article explains how the KWL chart transformed into a KLEW chart during a... See More

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