A. Incorporation of Performance Standards as Tasks
The students will be able to use scientific thinking skills to:
1. Ask Questions
Note relationships among objects or events.
Note discrepant events.
Seek information.
Formulate questions.
Generate statements that describe expected results.
2. Collect Data
Make accurate observations of objects and events using
the senses or other instruments.
Use standard measuring devices to quantify data.
Identify the significance of data.
Use experience to estimate values of quantitative data.
3. Analyze Data
Use observations and known information to predict events
Use evaluation and judgment to make inferences.
Increase the value of data by tabulating.
Use applied mathematics as a means of analyzing data.
Note related changes in variables when correlating.
Classify the characteristics of objects or events to
group them in a hierarchical system using
similarities and differences.
4. Explain
Describe the results of an investigation through words,
symbols, diagrams, or model.
Make up definitions through the use of common
characteristics of sets of objects.
B. Incorporation of Knowledge Standards
The student will understand that certain fundamental concepts, or
themes cut across scientific disciplines, including:
1. Organization: The universe is composed of systems that are
interrelated.
2. Limitations: Natural phenomena are limited by the
fundamental nature of matter and energy.
3. Systems & Interactions: Relationships exist between matter and
energy. Living things also interact with matter and energy in
time and space, forming relationships that include adaptation
4. Change: The natural environment is constantly undergoing
change in both scale and structure.
C. Attitudes
The student will develop enthusiasm for the nature of science by:
1. Acknowledging that science is a creative enterprise.
2. Recognizing certain scientific assumptions and milestones that
affect scientific principles.
3. Appreciating the nature of science and its quest for
perseverance, objectivity and accuracy.
4. Directly experiencing with the intellectual joy of scientific
discovery.
5. Recognizing that science, technology, and society are
interdependent.
6. Understand that developments in science and technology
affect the condition of life and, in turn, society's response
to scientific developments affects the direction of research
and development.
7. Appreciating the general effects of science and technology on
society.
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