What is Modeling Instruction?

In this video Paul Andersen explains how modeling instruction can be used in the science classroom. Instead of presenting a model for the students the teacher presents and experience or experiment and the students develop the model. Learn more about the AMTA here: http://modelinginstruction.org/ Music Attribution Intro Title: I4dsong_loop_main.wav Artist: CosmicD Link to sound: http://www.freesound.org/people/CosmicD/sounds/72556/ Creative Commons Atribution License Outro Title: String Theory Artist: Herman Jolly http://sunsetvalley.bandcamp.com/track/string-theory All of the images are licensed under creative commons and public domain licensing: Clipart - Cycle Color. (n.d.). Retrieved June 15, 2016, from https://openclipart.org/detail/171954/cycle-color Darwin, C. (1837). Charles Darwin’s 1837 sketch, his first diagram of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) on view at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin_tree.png Fischer, C. (2007). English: Illuminatable Earth globe, Columbus, type WB34083 (GEO edition, 2004), ball diameter 40 cm, with German inscription (but also available in English or French). Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GEO_Globe.jpg Schools, G. (2010a). English: Gulliver Academy students test for sound during a science experiment. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulliver_academy.jpg Schools, G. (2010b). English: Gulliver Academy students test for sound during a science experiment. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulliver_academy.jpg Váňa, O. (2009). English: Netlogo programing enviroment. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netlogo.gif