Preconceptions+and+Reasoning

=**Box 3 Bullet 3: Reveal Preconceptions and Reasoning**= = = =**P-prims:**= [|The link takes you to some interesting background on p-prims (phenomenolgoical primitives) that may inform how you look at students thinking]

__**Research:**__ [|How People Learn- Bridging Research and Practice](see Key Finding 1)

[|Ready, Set, Science] p. 42



__**Video Clips:**__ 1. Minds of Our Own- [|Lessons from Thin Air] Click the link to view the streaming video

2.See the clip below from the site: [|Tools for Ambitious Science Teaching] The teacher is uncovering initial student thinking about decomposition and fungi. media type="custom" key="5860617" [|Diagnoser.com]- an online diagnostic assessment tool for science [|Uncovering Student Ideas in Science vol. 1-4] by Page Keeley The front matter and probes describe the importance of uncovering initial thinking in science. See the embedded Google Book below: media type="custom" key="5860655" media type="custom" key="5944839" media type="custom" key="5944855"
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