modeling in mathematics and science 9...•because i experienced (saw, heard, smelled, tasted,...
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Modeling Nature:
Supporting Science Education by
Modeling Natural Systems
Richard Lehrer & Leona Schauble
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
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Science Practice: Modeling
Objects & Relations
Models are Analogies
Objects & Relations
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Developing Modeling
Literal Similarity (Resemblance) Mapping
– E.g., Physical Microcosms [Replica]
Outside ----> Compost Column
Should bits of paper and pieces of
Styrofoam be included?
Is mold alive? Where did those fruit
flies come from?
?
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Representational Re-description
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Anticipating Model Behavior
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Syntax Mapping
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Flipping Coins Food Preference
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Emergent Systems
• Properties of System Emerge from
Interaction of Objects
– E.g., Kinetic Model of Gas
• Agent-based Approaches?
– “Bacteria growth is like the StarLogo
simulation of rabbits and grass.”
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Explaining Model-World
Difference
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Re-Thinking School Math and
Science
• Elementary Mathematics: Not just
arithmetic
– Space & Geometry, Data, Measure,
Uncertainty, Functions
• Elementary Science
– Invention and Revision of Models
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Age of the Artist?
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Data Modeling
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Model Revision
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Re-Considering Teaching
• Build a teacher community centered around the study of the growth of student thinking across grades about modeling nature.
– Monthly Meetings
– Summer Institutes
– Study Groups (“Beak of the Finch”)
• Work with teachers in classrooms to conduct design studies.
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Summer Institute: Mapping the
Woodlot
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Diversity
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Monthly Forums for Integrating
Disciplinary and Pedagogical
Knowledge
Population Models of Tobacco Hornworms
300 eggs
50% survived
50% females
Every female lays 60 eggs.
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Teacher Modeling Discussion
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Teacher Authoring
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Case: Growth
• Early Elementary: Growth of Flowering Bulbs:
Difference
• Middle Elementary: Growth of WI Fast Plants:
Ratio
• Late Elementary: Growth of Population:
Distribution
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First Grade
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Third Grade
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Expansion of Attributes
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Fifth Grade
Shifts in Distribution Signal Transitions in
Growth Processes
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Video Case Summary
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Pond Studies
Urban Retention Ponds
Sites for Naturalistic Inquiry
Classroom Pond Pond-in-Jar
Sites for Inquiry by Design
Pond-in-Jar
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Design a Sustainable System
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Supporting Inquiry: What’s a
Good Research Question?• Genuine, we don’t already know the answer.
• Doable; it’s not absurd given the tools, supplies,
and knowledge we have available or can
reasonably obtain.
• People can piggyback on the question, builds on
previous question(s) or knowledge.
• Sensible; the answer to the question contributes
toward everyone's understanding
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Student Criteria about Evidence• Because an authority said so (from research, interview,
records, etc.).
• Because I experienced (saw, heard, smelled, tasted,
touched) it and recorded my observations.
• Because I collected data and organized and represented it
(created tables, charts, graphs) for interpretation and
communication.
• Because I only included evidence (assuming a functioning
model) that directly related to my question and its answer,
even if I saw other “interesting” things.
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Research Meetings
• Appropriating (some of) the practices of an
entomology graduate student’s research lab.
• Weekly presentation of questions and evidence by
3-4 research teams, chosen by lottery.
• Questions and suggestions by members of the class
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Give-and-Take
Denzel: Or else before we put the
animals and the substrate in, we could
first bubble it… to a pretty high DO.
Ivor: But isn’t your question how
fish and frogs affect the DO?… But=
Denzel: =Yeah, but=
Ivor: =just wait… If your fish or
frogs start dying in the jar, and you
take them out and put them in the
middle jar, then you can’t do your
question any more, because they’re not
in the jars affecting the DO. They’re
in some other jar.
Anita: Well, yes.
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Snapshot of Learning (n = 16)
• Design of inquiry. What kinds of research designs?
• Measurement. What role did measurement play in
inquiry?
• Ecology. How did students conceive of the
functioning of the ecological system?
• Models. Were jars models of anything? What kind of
model?
• Epistemology and Nature of Science. What did
students make of their activity?
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Students’ Research Designs
• 81% conducted experiments (e.g., Effects of pH on
DO), the others engaged in comparative study based on
the jar infrastructure of the classroom (Effects of
different environments on algae growth)
• All students understood the logic of control of
variables: “They are exactly the same. Same substrate.
Same elodea.” (and one factor varied)
• Harnessing the jars to inquiry was difficult. All
students experienced “crashes,” and nearly all
developed appreciation of potential effects of
confounding on design as a result.
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Measurement
• Coordinated Measure with Question (94%)
- Quantification refines question.
• What is the effect of the fish? ==> What is the effect of
the fish on levels of dissolved oxygen?
• Majority (56%) invented new measures to pursue
question
- e.g., Bushiness index for plant growth, the toothpick
test of density of algae growth.
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Ecology• Functional roles of input, producers, consumers
• Functional relationships cited ranged from 3 to 16.
• 69% were longer chains of inference
-Detritus (increase)---> DO (decrease) ---> Death
of Animals
Of these, 64% took the form of webs or cycles.
Plant (produces) --->DO (consumed-by)--->Fish
(produce)--->Waste (consumed-by)-->Plant
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Models
• Jar as Replica of Aquatic Environment (50%)
-Limits to inference based on lack of overt
similarity
• Jar as Functional Analog of Aquatic Environment
(50%)
- Limits to inference based on functional
differences, such as higher buffering of ponds and
lakes compared to jars.
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Agency and Evidence
We choose how we set up our stuff. We choose what
we want to put in there. We choose how we can
interpret our results. We can choose like instead of
maybe interpreting our results, like, interpreting,
instead of maybe, the teachers make them interpret it
instead of that, oh, this is bad. We can interpret it for
ourselves. Is this good? Do we think it is good? Or
do we think it is bad? So we have a lot more choice.
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Power
But I think kids sometimes feel intimidated by the
teachers because they know a lot more about this
stuff. About how to do things. And like we are trying
stuff and the teacher has the answer but they need
us to figure it out. I think it is kind of frustrating. But
I think it is also, it is nice when you are kind of
learning it with the teacher. You feel sort of more on
the same level and you feel if you tell them
something that they are not just already going to
know it.
And you can learn something more than them.
And I think that is a nice feeling.
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Research MeetingsBut I think it sort of stretches our sense of how to ask
questions and how to answer questions that we haven’t
thought of.
Well, like after we give our report we always have to
answer questions that other groups ask.And I think
that helps us stretch our knowledge of our jars. I
mean, when answering questions I have answered a
couple of questions and they have just made me
think of my jar in a different way. It made me realize
something. Something that I have been having
trouble with just answering my question, gives me
the answer, so easily I don’t even remember why I
had trouble with it.
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What does modeling contribute
to inquiry?
• It’s not easy to model nature: Jar control
Developing ideas about ecological roles, of measures, of
prospective interactions (Substrate kills - MANGLE)
• Extended inquiry
- Reflecting on qualities of questions and evidence
Going on excursions to cultivate personal interest
• Research meetings: Collective constraint and
opportunity
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Some Concluding Comments
• Understanding emerges as an interplay
between models and worlds.
• Science Education as:
-Developmental “stretching” from
inscriptions to mathematics
-A “pocketful” of models centered around
central conceptual themes, like growth,
material kind, behavior..