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Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes

by: Page Keeley

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Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from Association of Educational Publishers!

Author Page Keeley continues to provide K–12 teachers with her highly usable and popular formula for uncovering and addressing the preconceptions that students bring to the classroom—the formative assessment probe—in this first book devoted exclusively to life science in her Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series.

In this volume, Keeley addresses the topics of life and its diversity; structure and function; life processes and needs of living things; ecosystems and change; reproduction, life cycles, and heredity; and human biology. Using the probes as diagnostic tools that identify and analyze students’ preconceptions, teachers can easily move students from where they are in their current thinking to where they need to be to achieve scientific understanding. At the same time, use of the probes deepens the teacher’s understanding of the subject matter, suggests instructional implications, and expands assessment literacy. Using the student-learning data gained through the probes to inform teaching and learning is what makes the probes formative.

Each probe is supported by extensive Teacher Notes, which provide background information on the purpose of the probes, related concepts, explanations of the life science ideas being taught, related ideas in the national science standards, research on typical student misconceptions in life science, and suggestions for instruction and assessment.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Julie Luft


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Author


Introduction



Section 1



Concept Matrix………



Life and Its Diversity



1. Cucumber Seeds



2. The Virus Debate



3. No Animals Allowed



4. Is It an Amphibian?



Structure and Function



5. Pond Water



6. Atoms and Cells



7. Which One Will Dry Out Last?



8. Chlorophyll



9. Apple Tree



Life Processes and Needs of Living Things



10. Light and Dark



11. Food for Corn



12. Pumpkin Seeds



13. Rocky Soil



Section 2



Concept Matrix………





Ecosystems and Change





14. Is It a Consumer?



15. Food Chain Energy



16. Ecosystem Cycles



17. No More Plants



18. Changing Environment



Reproduction, Life Cycles, and Heredity



19. Eggs



20. Chrysalis



21. DNA, Genes, and Chromosomes



22. Eye Color



Human Biology



23. Human Body



24. Excretory System



25. Antibiotics





Index


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