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Generating and Testing Hypotheses: Enhancing Critical Thinking Across Content Areas

Chapter 11 emphasizes the importance of generating and testing hypotheses in various content areas, promoting higher-level mental processes such as inductive and deductive reasoning. It explores systems analysis, problem-solving, historical investigations, and experimental inquiries, illustrating how these concepts are applicable beyond science. Utilizing spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel and Google Spreadsheets, teachers can create interactive tasks that provide quick feedback, enabling students to manipulate data and identify patterns. Incorporating collaborative websites and simulations enhances engagement and real-world understanding.

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Generating and Testing Hypotheses: Enhancing Critical Thinking Across Content Areas

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  1. Chapter 11 Generating and Testing Hypothesis

  2. Applicable to all content areas • Promotes higher mental processes • Facts and terminology concretely connected to content • Inductive and deductive reasoning is supported Hypothesis is not just for science

  3. Systems Analysis-i.e. ecosystems variables • Problem Solving-overcome obstacles • Historical Investigation-unresolved events • Invention-determine solutions to a need • Experimental Inquiry- test w/ experiments • Decision Making-criteria influences decisions 6 Tasks to Generate and Test Hypothesis

  4. Spread Sheet Software • Teacher generates interactive spreadsheets • Quick feedback from multiple sources • Students manipulate data, see patterns, test predictions Microsoft Excel –Primary Google Spreadsheets- access by students in any location Wikicalc-classroom specifics

  5. Research problem, form a hypothesis, data supports or shows revisions needed • Deeper real world understanding from data patterns • Use collaborative websites to inform a larger group (globalschoolnet.org) • Data is displayed in charts, graphs to create concrete representations Data Collection Tools

  6. Web Resources and Gaming • Interactive simulations and apps (games) • Motivates students • Better content retention • Builds real world knowledge Muzy Lane’s Making History: The Calm and the Storm-students role as leader of a country from serious gamers source Plimouth Plantation ‘s You are the Historian – tour the plantation and read/listen to life of early settlers- free www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html NOVA Building Big- engineering is put to use to promote students use of decision making in building structures in a fictional town

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