Motion in action: A study of second graders' trajectories of experience during guided inquiry science instruction.
dc.contributor.author | Hapgood, Susanna Elizabeth | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-30T15:21:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-30T15:21:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3096103 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/123597 | |
dc.description.abstract | This interpretive case study describes a 10-day inquiry science program of study of motion down inclined planes during which a class of 21 second graders investigated scientific relationships such as mass and speed, speed and momentum, and mass and momentum via both text-based experiences (second-hand investigations) and hands-on materials-based experiments (first-hand investigations). Data sources included over 11 hours of videotaped instruction in addition to children's written work, class-generated artifacts, and paper-and-pencil pre- and posttests. Content analyses informed by both sociocultural and developmental perspectives revealed that, in addition to a significant increase in pre- to posttest scores, children in the class engaged in several processes integral to inquiry, namely, (a) using data as evidence, (b) evaluating investigative procedures, and (c) making sense of multiple forms of representations. In addition, the study describes the range of and shifts in children's ideas about scientific relationships fundamental to developing an understanding of motion. Many children were observed to make causal attributions involving a relationship between two variables, such as the mass and momentum of a ball rolling down a ramp. Discussed are mediating factors such as the teacher's role in scaffolding the class's investigations and features of the innovative scientists' notebook texts, which were integral to the instruction. Also presented is evidence of first-hand and second-hand investigations working in concert to provide the elementary school students with rich opportunities to learn and to express their developing understandings of scientific ideas. This study provides a rare glimpse of primary-grade inquiry-based science instruction within a classroom context. | |
dc.format.extent | 196 p. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | Action | |
dc.subject | Guided Inquiry | |
dc.subject | Instruction | |
dc.subject | Motion | |
dc.subject | Science | |
dc.subject | Second Graders | |
dc.subject | Study | |
dc.subject | Trajectories Of Experience | |
dc.title | Motion in action: A study of second graders' trajectories of experience during guided inquiry science instruction. | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Education | |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Elementary education | |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Science education | |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/123597/2/3096103.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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