In this case the teacher is assisting students as they present their different investigations on seed growth by discussing their procedures, data and conclusions.
In this case the teacher is going over the investigation procedures the class followed to grow plants and the students are sharing and discussing their weekly results recorded in their journals, deciding on what this data means.
In this case the teacher has created a hands-on, inquiry activity to help students learn about the formula for volume and students are finding the volume of given boxes through manipulating cubes and formulating a definition and formula for volume.
This case shows a teacher facilitating an activity where the students are measuring plant growth and graphing and analyzing their data.
In this case the teacher is managing groups of students at stations doing activities about the form and function of birds and students are finding out what makes a bird a bird by measuring, comparing, sorting, and using tools.
This case shows a teacher effectively facilitating students' scientific discussion skills to analyze their water quality data and students discussing what this data means while looking for relationships between different tests.
This case shows a teacher working with students to investigate force and motion by designing roller coasters. Students collect, record, and analyze their data through several trials to determine the best design.
This case shows a teacher supporting students as they investigate the effect of ramp height on the distance an object travels and document their findings with a bar graph.
In this case the teacher is managing groups discovering how bird beaks are adapted for eating specific types of food and students are using different tools in timed activities to see how much "food" different bird "beaks" can pick up, checking their hypotheses and recording data.
This case shows a teacher questioning students about the properties of shadows and students using manipulatives to create, measure, and compare shadows.
In this case the teacher demonstrates a pressure experiment to engage students in the inquiry process and students then design their own investigation to explain pressure and volume relationships, creating hypotheses, testing them, modifying their designs, analyzing data, and finally communicating their findings to their peers.
In this case the teacher is facilitating small groups working on area and perimeter problems and students are discussing with their partners, persevering and reasoning mathematically while working on real-life problems involving perimeter.
In this case the teacher has given the class information about Amelia Earhart's attempt to fly around the world and her subsequent fatal crash and students are striving to make sense of how many miles off course she was by using angle and distance measurements.
This case shows a teacher skillfully engaging her 1st grade students in learning about the frogs seen on a field experience and students working with high interest at various stations discovering, writing, and drawing what they know and see.
In this case the teacher is addressing misconceptions about surface area and volume and students are working with manipulatives on isometric dot paper creating 3-D prisms, collaborating with their group, and engaging in mathematical reasoning as they work.
In this case the teacher is facilitating groups of students investigating what makes balls roll faster down a ramp and students are making their own ramps, measuring and recording distances using nonstandard measurement.
This case shows a teacher helping students learn about 3-D shapes and predicting which shapes might roll the furthest and students engaged in a cooperative activity rolling the shapes, measuring and recording data.
In this case a teacher guides her students through an investigation of how different soils absorb at different rates as students measure absorption rates, observing and hypothesizing as they work with two different soil types.
This case shows a teacher working with a variety of learners on the topic of balance and motion and students designing toy cars and ramps to see which design will cause the cars to travel furthest while collecting, recording, and interpreting their results.
This case shows a teacher working with students who are designing and building bridges using metric and customary measurements and the students using their prior knowledge of compression and tension to build bridges according to set parameters.