Cases
“See this?” How Gesture, Investigation Materials, and Visual Resources Can Support Explanation
Grade 2
Maya and her classmates draw on materials and gestures as they develop mechanistic explanations of maple seed travel.
Resourceful Decision-Making: Supporting Children’s Engagement in Planning Investigations
Grade 2
Students use diverse meaning-making resources to plan an investigation to test whether a seed travels by sticking to animal.
How Far is Far Enough? Connecting Claims, Evidence, and Explanation
Grade 2
Students make claims about whether a focal seed travels by wind. They support their claims with evidence from an investigation, and they begin to think about mechanisms that might matter for how the seed could travel by wind.