Strategies Towards Designing for Sustained Engagement in Computational Modeling in Science Classrooms

Abstract

This poster presents emerging strategies for engaging students in extended investigations with computational modeling. Drawing on the literature on modeling and codesign with teachers over a year, we present 3 strategies and describe how they support student sense making and learning: 1. Curricular coherence and consistency; 2. Integrating multiple forms of data and modeling while foregrounding uncertainty; and, 3. Enabling unpacking blocks as a way to balance between ease of use and expressivity in modeling.