Provides support for helping students take stock of what they understand after an investigation and use additional resources as necessary to develop explanations.

We have found this structure useful for slowing ourselves down and for analyzing classroom conversations to think about supportive teaching practices.

Provides support for teachers and students to work together to develop a plan for an investigation that will allow them to understand a phenomenon.

Provides support for conversations where teachers and students work together to make sense of the evidence from investigations.

Strategies for reducing uncertainty, supporting uncertainty to emerge and be made public, and increasing resources for recognizing and grappling with uncertainty.