Natural Selection: Introduction to the Nature of Explanatory Models
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/muse/naturalselection/materials/section2/lesson2A/index.html


This information is designed to connect what students have learned about scientific arguments to the role and nature of explanatory models in science. They will be asked to read and discuss a brief handout about scientific models and their function in science. They will discover that models are ideas that scientists use to explain patterns they see in the natural world, a model is an idea that has predictive and explanatory power and is consistent with other ideas about how the world works, and that models can be compared based on data, the inferences made in the model, and the prior knowledge and beliefs upon which they are based. This site includes instructional notes for the teacher and student handouts.

This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.


This resource originally cataloged at:

DLESE

Subject: Biology
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)