Generating+and+Testing+Hypotheses

The instructional strategy of //generating and testing hypothesis// engages students in complex mental processes where they can apply content knowledge like facts and vocabulary, which enhances their overall understanding of the content. Technology allows students to spend more time interpreting data rather than gathering the data.
 * Generating and Testing Hypotheses:**


 * Spreadsheet Software**
 * Use spreadsheet information to make informed predictions, collect data, analyze data patterns and revise their hypothesis or create a new one.
 * Use interactive spreadsheets to understand savings, investments and interest rates.

[|Microsoft Lesson Plans for Students and Educators] [|Internet4classrooms Excel Modules] [|UEN Excel for Teachers] [|InspireData Resources] [|Google Docs/Spreadsheets]


 * Data Collection Tools**
 * Use data probes to recognize patterns in science.
 * Participate in Global Collaborative Projects to share and compare data online.

[|PASCO Science Experiments] [|MacBooks and Probeware] [|Probeware Lesson Plans]

[|Global SchoolNet Collaborative Projects] [|Collaboratory Projects]


 * Web Resources**
 * When carefully reviewed, selected and directed, interactive online simulations let students see the outcome of their hypothesis in virtual simulations which can increase student motivation and learning retention.

[|Marc Prensky/ Digital Game-Based Learning] [|Social Impact Games for Education] [|TeacherTap: Interactive Websites, Games, and Activities] [|Gamequarium] [|Sheppard Online Games and Software] [|Making History- The Calm & The Storm] [|Practice with the Catapult] [|Smog City] [|The NASA SCIence Files] [|Building Big] [|The First Thanksgiving –You are the Historian] [|By Kids for Kids: How to Invent] [|Darwin Pond] [|Zoo Matchmaker] [|Explore Learning] [|Interactive Color Wheel] [|Historical Scene Investigation]