What Are They Thinking? : Promoting Elementary Learning Through Formative Assessment.

Front Cover -- Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 - "Doing" Science -- 2 - "More A-More B" Rule -- 3 - Does It Have a Life Cycle? -- 4 - To Hypothesize or Not? -- 5 - How Far Did It Go? -- 6 - Needs of Seeds -- 7 - The Mitten Problem -- 8 - Is It Living? -- 9 - With a Purpose -- 10 - Where Are the Stars? -- 11 - Pushes and Pulls -- 12 - Teachers as Classroom Researchers -- 13 - Representing Microscopic Life -- 14 - The Daytime Moon -- 15 - Seeing the Light -- 16 - Food For Plants: A Bridging Concept -- 17 - Where Did the Water Go? -- 18 - Confronting Common Folklore: Catching a Cold -- 19 - Talking About Shadows -- 20 - Birthday Candles:Visually Representing Ideas -- 21 - Mountain Age: Creating a Classroom Profile -- 22 - Using the P-E-O Technique -- 23 - Labeling Versus Explaining -- 24 - When Equipment Gets in the Way -- 25 - Is It a Rock? Continuous Formative Assessment -- 26 - Is It a Solid? Claim Cards and Argumentation -- 27 - When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K-2 Concept Cartoons -- 28 - Pendulums and Crooked Swings: Connecting Science and Engineering -- 29 - Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning -- 30 - Is It Made of Parts? Scaffolding a Formative Assessment Probe -- References -- Index -- Untitled.

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