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| Meta-Principle: Make Contents Accessible |
| Making science accessible contributes to knowledge integration by building on what students know. To make science accessible, instructors design materials that connect to students’ ideas and encourage students to reconsider their existing ideas. Making science accessible involves adding ideas to the mix that students bring to science class, scaffolding the inquiry process so that students generate new connections and providing supports that move students in a normative direction. It also involves ensuring that students connect ideas in a web such that they are prepared to revisit science in everyday life rather than isolate school science. Finally, making science accessible means ensuring that students get feedback on their reasoning. Such feedback can motivate them to continue to learn science rather than giving up on understanding science. |
