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