Resources Featured in the Productive Uncertainty Book

Throughout the book, we refer to four investigations our team has designed:

• Seed Dispersal (2nd Grade)

• Heating and Cooling (2nd Grade)

• Conservation of Matter (5th Grade)

• Decomposition (5th Grade)

Our approach to incorporating productive uncertainty in science investigations (page 14)

• The Investigations Framework (Figure 2.2; page 21)

• Example Investigations (page 36)

• Uncertainty design strategies (pages 48-49)

• A moment of uncertainty practice (page 52)

• Example investigation: Conservation of matter

• Classroom cases (page 71)

• The Investigations Framework and forms of uncertainty in science practice (pages 85-87)

• Planning Investigations Conversation Tool (pages 91 - 93)

• Case: Resourceful Decision-Making: Supporting Children’s Engagement in Planning Investigations (pages 96 - 98)

• The Investigations Framework and forms of uncertainty in science practice (pages 112-113)

• The Investigations Framework and uncertainty in science practice (pages 134-135)

• Claim and Evidence Conversation Tool (page 143)

• Cases related to claims and evidence conversations (page 155)

• Case: Leveraging Student Expertise: Collective Sensemaking in Claims and Evidence Conversations 

• Case : Ambiguity in Evidence: “It Melted but It Didn’t Wanna Lose It’s Shape” 

• Case – How Far is Far Enough? Connecting Claims, Evidence, and Explanation 

• The Investigations Framework and uncertainty in science practice (pages 163-165)

• Tool: Constructing Explanations of Phenomena (page 166)

• Cake read-aloud (page 172)

• Cases related to explanations

• Case: “See This?” How Gesture, Investigation Materials, and Visual Resources Can Support Explanation 

• Case: “Those Air Bubbles Are Like Secret Steam Tunnels”: Using Resources to Support Explanation 

• Tool: Adapting an Investigation (page 188)