Currently, K-12 science education in the United States…does not provide students with engaging opportunities to experience how science is actually done. –National Research Council



How to get your students thinking like a disciplinarian:

1) Set up a problem or scenario that an expert in the field would tackle.

2) Help your students to develop answers to these questions: What questions would an expert in the field (mathematician, journalist, artist, scientist, historian, geographer, etc.) ask? What information/data would s/he gather?  What connections would s/he make?

3) Write up your own responses and let the students compare their responses to yours.

Want more ideas? Check out these posts on disciplinary thinking.

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