This case focuses on the experiences of Elliot, a student teacher in a fourth-grade classroom at a high-poverty, urban school, who sought to address barriers to students’ scienceScience comprehension. After teaching an inquiry-basedInquiry-based lesson on changes in the states of matter, he realized that his students still struggled with using the key vocabularyVocabularyto explainExplain a familiar phenomenon, the evaporation of a puddle in the playground. He worked with his university supervisor to identify additional strategiesStrategies to enhance student comprehension and expand their discussions about states of matter.
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Case: What Happened to the Puddle?
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Navigating Elementary Science Teaching and Learning: Cases of Classroom Practices and Dilemmas, pp.327-330