Generating+and+Testing+Hypotheses+S217

Kelsey Kennedy Generating and Testing Hypotheses **Name of the Resource:** Possible Worlds http://possibleworlds.edc.org/ **Rating:** 7/10 This website allows students to explore several topics regarding science. Students are able to generate a hypothesis based upon questions asked on the website, and test their hypothesis by playing a game. Though it is fun, there is a limited amount of subjects available. **Description:** “ The Possible Worlds digital games are designed to help improve student understanding of phenomena that are often the subject of scientific misconceptions. Developed by the Center for Children and Technology, the games are the centerpieces of modules that address four topics: photosynthesis, heredity, electricity, and heat transfer. Each module includes accompanying classroom activities that leverage students’ experiences within the games.” (http://possibleworlds.edc.org/about-possible-worlds/) **Alignment with Instructional Strategy:** Before every game, students must develop educated guesses based upon questions and lessons taught in class. Instead of doing a hands on lab, students play the game on the website to test their hypothesis. The games are fun and allow students to rethink their hypothesis before playing again!
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 * Shelly Riess – Week 7 **
 * Name of resource: ** Microsoft Excel
 * URL: **[]
 * Rating: ** 10/10 – While Microsoft Excel is a staple in the workplace, it can also be used for educational purposes. For the user who can (or wants to) create complex formulas and sheets, the “what if this” “then that” is definitely useful.
 * Description: ** Excel is touted as a powerful spreadsheet tool used by many professionals and novices alike. The major uses for Excel are for the ways it can quickly calculate data, sort information, and create pivot tables. You can create simple budget sheets to more complex sheets that allow for hypothesis’ situations.
 * How aligns with Generating and Testing Hypotheses: ** Using the formula function within Excel you can change one figure to see how it affects the outcome of another area.
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https://escmarzano.wikispaces.com/8.+Generating+and+Testing+Hypotheses Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Portland, Oregon. Pitler, H., Hubbell, E.R., & Kuhn, M.(2013). Using technology with classroom instruction that works (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Chapter 9 (p. 204-219)
 * Generating and Testing Hypotheses:** Greg Burchard
 * Name:** Marzano Strategies - 8. Generating and Testing Hypotheses.
 * Resource:** This resource is an educational wikispaces.com website**.**
 * Rating:** I would rate this site a 8/9.
 * Description: T**his wikispace.com website identifies the teachers need to generate and test hypotheses across all grade levels to stimulate learning and increase understanding. The site also identifies opportunities beyond science in math, history, and language arts, The information in organized in three key segments. The segments are:
 * Introduction statement
 * Key Research Findings and
 * Implementation
 * Alignment:** This wikispace.com website aligns with our reading this week identifying that generating and testing hypothesis:
 * Increases understanding
 * Allow students to test conceptual understanding and
 * Provides a better physical learning environment than traditional lectures.
 * Resources:**

Educational website
 * Maria Jandernoa - Generating and Testing Hypotheses with Go-Lab **
 * Rating:** I would rate Go-Lab a 7/10. It is a great tool that promotes inquiry-based learning.
 * Description:** Go-Lab is a resource that creates a framework for inquiry learning through the use of online labs to build a universal community of scientists. There are multiple labs created that allow for interactive use. The goal is that people will review the lab and create inquiries for them.
 * Alignment:** Go-Lab aligns with the strategy to generate and test hypotheses because it provides a means for students to ask questions about many different things. In addition, it has a feature called a "hypothesis scratchpad" that assists students in creating hypotheses. The scratchpad provides common quantifiable terms to use in a hypothesis as well.


 * Dustin Hunter** - Generating and Testing Hypotheses [|Wisemapping]
 * Resource**: Wisemapping is an educational website.
 * Rating**: I would rate wisemapping as a 7/10. Wisemapping has a lot of cool features that students can use to organize their thoughts and to illustrate the brainstorming process. Unfortunately, it can be a little overwhelming to students at first and there is a bit of a learning curve before students get used to it and can benefit from its features.
 * Description**: The main purpose of wisemapping is to allow students to organize their ideas when they are attempting to solve higher level problems. If students are given a project or a big question to tackle they can use wisemapping to create a visual to assist with organizing their thoughts. This can also be a good way to activate prior knowledge and get students thinking about what information they learned previously is relevant to this project.
 * Alignment**: The focus of this week's reading is generating and testing hypotheses. I believe that wisemapping aligns with this focus because according to Pitler, Hubble, and Kuhn generating and testing hypotheses is a higher level task which requires scaffolding and they recommend graphic organizers as a way to help students organize their thoughts as they put together their hypotheses (205).
 * References**: Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Pitler, H. (2012). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.


 * Hillary Bailey - Showing Evidence Tool**
 * Resource:** The Showing Evidence Tool helps students learn how to construct well reasoned arguments and prove their cases with credible evidence.
 * Rating:** I would give this tool a 7 out of 10. The tool is from Intel and can only be used on computers and not handheld devices so that gives it a lower score.
 * Description:** The Showing Evidence Tool is used as a community for learners. "The tool provides a visual framework to make claims, identify evidence, evaluate the quality of that evidence, explain how the evidence supports or weakens claims, and reach conclusions based on the evidence" (Showing Evidence, n.d.). The tool is free from any computer that has internet connection. Students can work on the tool at home or at school and can be linked to others to review each others ideas as well. There is also a Teacher Work Space and a student log in.
 * Alignment:** This tool easily aligns with generating and testing hypothesis. The whole tool is based around making claims and finding evidence to prove their claim or stance. It allows students to learn to argue their points and do the research to back up what they are arguing for.
 * References:** Showing Evidence, (n.d.). Retrieved from https://engage.intel.com/community/teachersengage/intel_teach/se.

**Resource:** [|Explore Learning]
==== **Rating: **8/10 - This educational website and application is science and math based, opening up many avenues for students to work with.This application works on PC, Mac, iPad, Android, and Chromebook. Students can generate experiments based on what they are interested in and change variables. ==== ====**Description:** This educational website and application allows users to create experiments based on variables of their choice. They have the power to change the variables and the information that they are exploring. This is a paid educational website/application, however, there is a free trial available. ==== ====**Alignment:** This educational website and application expects students to run tests and generate hypothesis. Students also may explain their results and conclusions after generating their experiments. Because these features are included in this educational website and application, it is closely aligned with generating and testing hypotheses. ====

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ExploreLearning Gizmos: Math and Science Simulations That Power Inquiry and Understanding. (n.d.). Retrieved April 17, 2017, from https://www.explorelearning.com/

**Kathy Thompson- Generating and Testing Hypotheses**

 * Resource:** [|Creately]
 * Rating: 8/10** I like this educational website is accessible on any computer. Students can involve their thinking process for testing their hypotheses. It is a little complicated for the age group I teach.
 * Description:** This website allows students to create and organize their ideas to generate their hypotheses. It allows them to save, import, and export their work. Students can add all types of shapes and different characters.
 * Alignment:** This educational website aligns with the strategy because it allow the students to generate and track their hypotheses. It helps students to better understand the process of generating and testing a hypotheses.
 * Reference:** https://creately.com/app/?tempID=hp2c01jf1&login_type=demo#

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Michele Schafer: Resource: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> [|PhET Interactive Simulations] =====

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Rating: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> 9/10 . I like this program but think that sometimes it can take some thinking to figure out how best to use it in a classroom. Time will be required by the teacher to set up the instructions and guide the students however it is a great way to learn some of these science concepts.=====

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**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Description and use in the classroom: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> This is a site put together by the University of Colorado Bolder that has many Interactive Simulations. There are many topics to choose from. Students can play with this on their own or teachers can guide them through activities. This can be used in the classroom to help students practice or experiment on ideas they are learning in the classroom. =====

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**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">How it aligns to generating and testing hypothesis: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Students are able to create their own hypothesis and test them out in many different situations. They can reset the simulation to test out another situation to see how it is different from a set situation. Most of the simulations have several conditions that can be changed and reset to determine what changes will occur as you change the conditions. Each simulation can have multiple uses in a classroom. =====

Dayna Winczner- Generating and Testing Hypothesis

 * Name of the resource- [|Science kids]
 * Educational website
 * 9/10- This website is great for anyone teaching science. It incorporates technology and science interactive learning on any area of content.It allows students to visually see science in action by their own doing.
 * This could be used to incorporate STEM activities with your science content. Students can also use this website for pre-content learning for example how sunlight helps plants grow; they could use the website to practice the amount of sunlight needed to make their plant grow,
 * This resource aligns with our chapter because it gives instructional interactive learning. Students can use previous knowledge ti make predictions about what could happen with a certain content activity. It will also engages the students with the certain tasks at hand because of the technology aspect. Students can mentally predict what is going to happen and actually test their hypothesis with content game they choose.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Resource: Climate Kids

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Climate Kids is an educational website for 5 to 8 graders. It created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It has a huge number of explanations about the earth and how climate effects our world. Also, it has many lessons, activities, games, videos, and helpful resources.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Climate Kids can challenge kids with many scientific theories and assumptions about the Earth. Throughout its activities and games, children will be able to generate, analyze, and test hypotheses. It is very helpful for teachers and kids to live with an enjoyable experience.

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Monique Sims – Generating and Testing Hypotheses Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. R. (2017). Experiential Learning Technology | Live It. Learn It. Retrieved April 20, 2017, from http://realityworks.com/
 * Resource: ** [|Realityworks]
 * Rate: ** 10/10. This site is very informative and it is easy to navigate.
 * Description: ** Realityworks is an educational website. This site provides products to enhance the social and emotional development through the use of virtual technology. It’s vital effort to assist educators and students to achieve learning through informed hypothesis. Tools are offered for personal and professional development. The site’s innovation and technical knowledge are essential to providing effective solutions.
 * Alignment: ** This site provides students the opportunity to discover learning through effective collaborative interaction through the use of instructional strategy of generating and testing hypothesis. It equips students or business users to learn through virtual experience. It also provides students and teachers’ critical thinking skills and practice.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alexa Tyler – Generating and Testing Hypotheses - **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [|EdHeads]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **Resource:** Edheads is an online website that allows students to participate in online simulations regarding math and science.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **Rating:** 9/10. Edheads is being given 9 out of 10 because while the website is very user friendly and is very aesthetically pleasing, not all of the simulations are free. Another issue is that this website is not accessible on mobile devices. If the website was completely free and accessible on more than just computers then I would argue this would be a perfect STEM simulation tool.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **Description:** “Edheads ignites imagination through engaging and interactive online science and math adventures by partnering with educators and industry (Edheads, n.d. pp.1). “All the activities at the Edheads site will have connections to National and State standards in their teacher sections” (Edheads, n.d. pp. 3).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alignment **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: This website aligns with what we are learning this week because it is a resource that would allow students to generate and test various STEM related hypotheses. While it may not be 100% accurate to real life, there are benefits to this product and it would give students a basic understanding of what the results of their hypotheses might be,

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**__The name of the resource__: Mindstorms**
 * Lyla Alhomedi**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**__Rating__: 10/10** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**__Description__: This is a great website which basically makes students built their hypotheses in a useful and fun way. students can build a robot and then create a plan for the robot to design their own case of study by graphing, and choose certain colors and place them in at a particular spot. it helps students to improve their thinking skills to solve a problem, investigation, experimental tasks in order to for them to see what students can do with the robot and where they need to make changing.** __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Alignment:** __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **this website aligns with the instructional strategy because it provides students with a tool that can be used to examine their hypotheses and see what the results would look like.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Resource:** **[|https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms?scrlybrkr=3ee1cdf9]**

Tawnna Swinney Week 7 EDU 590 Spring II 2017
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Generating and Testing Hypothesis **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Name of the Resource **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: Zoo Matchmaker
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Type of Resource **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: Website (Instructional Interactive), pg. 215
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Rating **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: 9
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Description of Resource **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: Zoo Matchmaker is a website designed and developed by the Minnesota Zoo to teach students how zookeepers use data and other resources to maintain a diverse population among a group of tigers. Students become “Population Mangers” and must input information into the activities listed to preserve the genetic pool. Students learn about breeding and other needed skills zookeepers possess in order to make educated decisions about our wildlife population.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Alignment with Instructional Strategies: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Zoo Matchmaker would align with our 7th grade and 10th grade science standards. In those grade levels, students are introduce to life science in the 7th grade and biology in the 10th. Allowing them to participate in such a lesson as the Zoo Matchmaker would allow them to see wildlife from a different perspective. Many of whom have never been to a zoo, can experience and gain an understanding of the cycle of life.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.33px;">Reference: [] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.33px;">TaShara Eiland: Generating and Testing Hypothesis <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.33px;">Resource: Amazing Alex App Click [|Here] Identity: Educational Application for iPad, iPhone, Android and Kindle Fire Rating: 10/10 Description: Amazing Alex is a app that can be downloaded for Science based knowledge. This app helps enhance the skills of thinking and reasoning (testing hypothesis) through solving and creating puzzles. Students can use this app to help think outside the box and create using regular objects. Engineering is also encouraged through this application. For grades 4-8th. Alignment: Amazing Alex aligns with instructional strategies because it encourages thinking outside the box and creativity. Science is all about testing ideas and you have to be creative to do so. I think Amazing Alex encourages creative thinking and problem solving in a way that relates to the youth. A fun, inventive way. While trying to solve puzzles, students may see that being creative and problem solving is easier than they thought.