today you may walk on the back of a beetle, slide down the throat of a foxglove, wade through the hairs on a bean sprou

3. How to “LOUPE” Hold the loupe so the wide end cups the eye It must touch the bones around the eye Close your other eye Hold something up and bring closer to the loupe until it is focused

4. TRY IT: Look closely at the back of your hand Make a list of 10 things your hand reminds you of Be prepared to share If you get stuck, look at if from a different angle

5. Two Important Questions ~ What ELSE does it remind me of? What ELSE does it look like?

6. Student Observations of Their Hand class list A maze Cactus Desert sand Crumpled paper Pattern Sand/sandpaper Baby’s head with tiny hairs sprouting Rock Tree bark

7. Sandwich Poem

8. My Hand

9. Increasing Scientific Literacy: Thinking By Analogy Katie Hart Denton ISD Khart@dentonisd.org

10. First, before everything else comes the seeing of nature with your own eyes, that is, experiencing it yourself. - Abraham H. Maslow Psychologist

11. “Scientific Literacy” is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and process required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity. (National Research Council, 1996)

12. Scientific Literacy is also… the skill of “reading” the natural or manmade world. the skill of theorizing about the world by looking closely (Ruef, 2003, p. 51)

13. Analogies Analogies are a kind of magnifier!

14. “Scientists would get rid of all their hardware, their fancy billion dollar labs, before they could afford to get rid of this habit of mind, thinking by analogy, for it’s the way the majority of scientific breakthroughs have always come and will come.”

15. Use of Analogies Examples: Leopard seal Catfish Rhinoceros Beetle Macaroni Penguins Ringed Seals

16. Why a LOUPE? Look closely at the world Think by analogy Change scale and theorize Simple Questions to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity, and scientific literacy.

18. SSL (Silent Sustained Louping) Choose an object from the basket Create a list of at least 10 comparisons If you finish early, continue your list. Keep asking: What ELSE does this remind me of? What ELSE does it look like?

19. Student Observations of a Sponge Corral Grass Spider’s Web Craters Watermelon Mouth talking Pound cake Yolk Honeycomb by Madison, third grade Bee hive Swiss cheese Mars Cotton candy Jelly bean Rice Krispys by Bailey, third grade

20. Sandwich Poem

21. Daisies These daisies remind me of a yellow and white hat. The stems are as rough as gravel and as green as grass. Each leaf has zig-zag edges. Some stems are wavy like waves in the ocean. The pedals are shaped like small ovals and they are as white as snow. The center is like a yellow pillow.

22. Red Yucca It’s blossoms are redder than boiling lava, And the stem is darker than oak tree bark. Although it’s as tall as I, The stem is as thin as a pea pod. With leaves like a palm’s All covered with thread, While the newest blossoms as as small as an apple seed.

23. The flowers are shaped like a tulip, With the center golder than gold. The Red Yucca’s inside petals are a sun-shiny yellow, It’s flower is close to a hollow bucket, and a skinny wine glass, It has so many flowers and blossoms that it is like a hive full of bees. Red Yucca

24. References Lesson adapted from Ruef, K. (2003) The Private Eye (5X): Looking and Thinking by Analogy. Lyle, Washington. For more information and order forms www.theprivateeye.com Other sources: National Research Council. (1996). National Science Education Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.