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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.