EDEE 270 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Net Force, Evaporation, Water Cycle

• School: McGill University
• Department: Elementary Education
• Course: EDEE 270
• Professor: Dawn Wiseman

Document Summary

Science process skills, theories of learning, cei, etc. An observation is anything you can touch, see, hear, smell or taste. An observation may be measurable in some manner. Ability to observe accurately is impacted by many things for example the mirror activity in the lab we did on wednesday. How you do observations is also important. Sometimes we cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste what we are trying to understand. Inferences are based on observations and prior knowledge. Encourage them to look for patterns (i. e. to make inferences) Create a safe space where students feel comfortable being challenged and challenging each other. Notes from learning to observe and infer reading. Students from an early age need to observe and infer. They can"t always observe everything so that is where inference comes into help them. When students combine their observations and inferences, they can generate explanations for why things happen or how things happen.