Science Standards:
Descriptions of the key concepts underlying the Big Idea. |
Vocabulary:
Words and phrases essential to the science content. |
Helpful Websites:
Pages that should be accessed any time students need extra help or practice. |
Learning Targets:
Performance expectations for students that guide instruction and assessment. Students must display evidence of hitting each learning target. |
1.1 Scientists ask questions to guide investigations.
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Vocabulary:
Testable Questions Researchable Questions |
Helpful Websites:
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Students will be able to:
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1.2 Scientists develop investigations which measure variables and constants.
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Vocabulary:
Independent Variable Dependent Variable Constants Control Placebo |
Helpful Websites:
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Students will be able to:
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1.3 Scientists organize and analyze data.
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Vocabulary:
Scatterplot graph Linear trendline X axis & Y axis Slope Y intercept R2 value Correlation Causation |
Helpful Websites:
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Students will be able to:
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1.4 Scientists use evidence to create and revise claims.
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Vocabulary:
Claim Evidence Law Theory |
Helpful Websites:
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Students will be able to:
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1.5 Scientists share results of investigations.
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Vocabulary:
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Students will be able to:
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Helpful Videos:
Food Detectives: Is MSG Safe? (part 1)
Starfish Grow Experiment (A-H-S-T Chemistry) |
Food Detectives: Is MSG Safe? (part 2)
Magic Glowing Germ Lab
(Riverside Adv. Chem) |
The Variables Song
Steps to Create Scatterplot Graph on Open Office |
*Extensions:
- Develop a plan for collecting data about your own testable question. Get approval then go be a scientist!
- Compare/contrast two different articles about the same science topic: one that is a peer-reviewed journal article and one that is an opinion article.
- Compare/contrast how four different news sources report on the same controversial science topic.
- Create a video about using scientific thinking to solve everyday problems or a video about how there is no set list of steps to the "scientific method."
*Extensions are intended to expand the learning of students who achieve mastery of the standards.
Pictures...both helpful and humorous!
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