Internet Environments for Science Education

3The Scaffolded Knowledge Integration Framework for Instruction

Marcia C. Linn University of California, Berkeley

Elizabeth A. Davis University of Michigan

Bat-Sheva Eylon The Weizmann Institute of Science

The scaffolded knowledge integration framework translates our knowledge integration perspective on learning into guidance for those designing science instruction. Taken together, the scaffolded knowledge integration framework, the knowledge integration perspective on learning, and the cognitive processes offer three lenses for understanding science learning and instruction. These three lenses allow researchers to combine the results from a variety of research endeavors and will ultimately, we hope, lead to a more robust understanding of learning ...