Science Stories- Chapter 10 Moving Beyond the Science Kit

This chapter focuses on concepts that are difficult for students grasp because they are not concrete substances with easily measurable properties. An example that the text provides as a concrete measurable substance is matter is matter and one that is not is energy.
In the two science stories in this chapter the teachers, Ms. Stone and Ms. Travis, are using two different teaching approaches. Ms. Stone is teaching her lesson based on a direct instruction teaching approach, whereas Ms. Travis is using an indirect teaching approach and basing her lesson off of inquiry.
Ms. Travis thinks of her students as "knowers". She encourages them to carry our investigations on their own, and relate their topics to everyday life. She expands the science kit by allowing students to use various materials outside of the kit as well as by letting the students engaged.
Ms. Stone is more of an authoritative teacher. She doesn't trust that her students can explore investigations on their own and is not as open to students figuring out the answers one their own.
I thought it was interesting to see the different approaches to teaching; direct instruction and indirect instruction. I also found this picture online that has characteristics on strategy instruction.