Dr. Jennifer C Stark

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.