Teaching Experiments and a Carbon Cycle Learning Progression

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Teaching Experiments and a Carbon Cycle Learning
Progression

• Lindsey Mohan Andy Anderson
• Michigan State University

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Carbon Cycle Learning Progression Framework
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Carbon Cycle Learning Progression Framework
Level 1 Force-Dynamic
Level 4 Principles
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Carbon Cycle Learning Progression Framework
Level 1 Actors and events
Level 4 Processes that generate, transform, and
oxidize organic carbon
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Lower and Upper Anchor Knowledge
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Carbon Cycle Learning Progression Framework
Inquiry Investigating
Accounts Explaining, Predicting
Citizenship Decision-Making
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Units of Analysis
Learning Performances the characteristics of
students who are at a particular Level of
Achievement and reasoning about a particular
practice, process, and principle.
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Units of Analysis
Learning Performances the specific practices
characteristic of students who are at a
particular Level of Achievement and reasoning
about a particular practice, process, and
principle.
Accounts of processes Example Explanation of
matter during photosynthesis
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Current Structure-First Learning Progression
Level 4 Principled Accounts of Processes in a
Hierarchy of Scales (successful constraints)
Level 3 Detailed narratives with unsuccessful
constraints
Level 2 Hidden mechanisms about events
Level 1 Macroscopic Force-Dynamic Narratives
about Actors and Events
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Desired Principles-First Learning Progression
Level 4 Principled Accounts of Processes in a
Hierarchy of Scales (successful constraints)
Level 3 Detailed narratives with unsuccessful
constraints
Level 3 Principled accounts at molecular scale
w/ few chemical details
Level 2 Hidden mechanisms about events
Level 2 Successful conservation at macroscopic
scale
Level 1 Macroscopic Force-Dynamic Narratives
about Actors and Events
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Aspects of Starting Knowledge

• Level 1

• Visible Event
• Accomplished by Actors
• With Powers or Abilities
• Trying to achieve Purposes

Needs or Enablers
Results Achieving Purpose
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Aspects of Starting Knowledge

• Level 4

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Aspects of Starting Knowledge

• Characteristics from levels
• Level 1 Enablers that actors need to achieve
  their goals (include materials, energy forms, and
  conditions)
• Level 2 Gas-gas and solid-solid cycles
  macroscopic energy forms (light, heat, motion)
• Level 3 Atoms, molecules, chemical change,
  cellular processes, etc

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Using Starting Knowledge to Set Goals
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Tools for Reasoning Principles

• Principles
• Conservation of Matter (Atoms, Mass)
• Conservation of Energy
• Energy Degradation
• Hierarchy of Scales

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Tools for Principles Matter, Energy, Scale
Process Tool
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Flames
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One flame
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Parts of the flame
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Molecules inside flame
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Atom re-arrangement in combustion
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