Workshop 6

 

Writing in Science: Strategies for Understanding

by Anthony Cody

When students write research papers, their first instinct is often to collect as many facts as they can into a big pile and string them together into a report. This session is an introduction to a variety of strategies that incorporate different styles of writing to deepen student understanding of challenging concepts. I will share some ways to overcome plagiarism, and then explore the use of graphic organizers, creative writing and “free-writes” as tools to get students thinking, and also as a means of assessing student learning. We will also look at creative uses of journals to document student investigations in science.

Audience: All science teachers

 

 

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