Wiggling Worms: Using the Learning Cycle in an Elementary Classroom to Study Variation

Authors

Lori Marie Ihrig, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Jennifer Nicole Prindle, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In grades K-2, students are at an age when they start to look closely at living things around them. They can comprehend that while individuals may be of the same kind (i.e., kittens from the same litter), they possess differences. This article uses the learning cycle to engage students in making observations and measurements about plants and animals in order to help them understand “there is variation among individuals of one kind in a population” (AAAS, 1993, p. 107). This article promotes National Science Education Standards A and C, and Iowa Teaching Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Publication Date

Spring 2011

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

38

Issue

2

First Page

4

Last Page

8

Copyright

© Copyright 2011 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Ihrig, Lori Marie and Prindle, Jennifer Nicole (2011) "Wiggling Worms: Using the Learning Cycle in an Elementary Classroom to Study Variation," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 38: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol38/iss2/3