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Floaties and sinkies, flinkers and Archimedes thinkers : embodied writing in grade eight science class Harding, Thomas
Abstract
This study has emerged from concerns expressed by science students, educators, and researchers, and from my own teaching experience, that writing in school science often remains disconnected from students' experience, and rarely stimulates further learning. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of open, expressive writing tasks to illustrate students' understanding of the phenomena of floating and sinking. A specially selected series of seven explorations in physical properties of matter provide a rich context for Grade Eight students and I, their teacher, to experience and explore this topic. The interconnections between lab explorations and writing in school science, and the interactions in a classroom fostering science inquiry, are central to this study. A classroom-based story is unraveled from an enactivist perspective. My analysis of students' writing tasks and reflections on learning illuminates possibilities for encouraging personal connections and embodied writing in science class. Students' insights into learning about science and about themselves through expressive ways of writing shape this story.
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Floaties and sinkies, flinkers and Archimedes thinkers : embodied writing in grade eight science class
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University of British Columbia
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Date Issued |
1999
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Description |
This study has emerged from concerns expressed by science students, educators,
and researchers, and from my own teaching experience, that writing in school science
often remains disconnected from students' experience, and rarely stimulates further
learning. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of open, expressive writing
tasks to illustrate students' understanding of the phenomena of floating and sinking.
A specially selected series of seven explorations in physical properties of matter
provide a rich context for Grade Eight students and I, their teacher, to experience and
explore this topic. The interconnections between lab explorations and writing in school
science, and the interactions in a classroom fostering science inquiry, are central to this
study.
A classroom-based story is unraveled from an enactivist perspective. My analysis
of students' writing tasks and reflections on learning illuminates possibilities for
encouraging personal connections and embodied writing in science class. Students'
insights into learning about science and about themselves through expressive ways of
writing shape this story.
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eng
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2009-06-16
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0054930
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University of British Columbia
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1999-05
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Graduate
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.