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This project will use video case studies to identify key strategies used by exemplary teachers to guide class discussions. The project will study teachers in the areas of high school mechanics and electricity, and middle school life sciences, and is designed to develop the constructs and language that will enable us to describe key discussion leading strategies for fostering scientific modeling and thinking skills, as well as conceptual understandings. The project will build on the results of classroom case studies as well as findings from studies of thinking processes in scientists. It will develop an integrated theoretical framework for model based learning and teaching in science.