Science

=**Science**=


 * Less of || More of ||
 * Instructional Strategies ||
 * Step-by-step prescriptive lab investigations || **Inquiry-based Labs** ||
 * Process skill taught in isolation (measurement, observations, hypothesizing, etc.) || Process skills taught as needed along with content ||
 * Focus on facts, processes, lists || Focus on **conceptual connections** to energy, properties, patterns, change, models, systems ||
 * Focus on activity || Focus on learning objective and enduring understanding ||
 * Focus on completion of assignments || Focus on discourse and reflection ||
 * Driven by notes and worksheets || Driven by student processing and sharing via **interactive notebooking** ||
 * Labs and activities wrap up with questions and summary of what happened || Labs and activities wrap up with **Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Conclusions** ||
 * Lessons, labs and activities are unconnected || Lesson, labs and activities connected to concepts, one another, and real-world problems. ||
 * Long lectures delivered by teachers || Shorter mini-lectures delivered by teacher, other experts, students who have already mastered content. ||
 * Students all work on one longer lab || Students work on multiple hands-on learning experiences that may be completed in various sequences and repeated as needed for conceptual understanding ||

GCISD Science Instructional Philosophy