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Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Bismack, Amber S.; Gotwals, Amelia Wenk; Wright, Tanya S.; Washburn, Erin K. – Science and Children, 2022
An important part of promoting scientific literacy is developing disciplinary literacy practices, such as obtaining information from text and sharing investigation results through talk and writing. To support students to develop disciplinary literacy practices in science, educators must provide opportunities for them to work with multiple…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Weinburgh, Molly; Silva, Cecilia – Science and Children, 2011
For the past five summers, the authors have taught summer school to recent immigrants and refugees. Their experiences with these fourth-grade English language learners (ELL) have taught them the value of using models to build scientific and mathematical concepts. In this article, they describe the use of different forms of 2- and 3-D models to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mathematical Concepts, Immigrants, English (Second Language)