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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 01. | Ask ""what if"" questions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 02. | Explore and pursue student-generated ""what if"" questions. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 03. | Use appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 04. | Use the five senses to make observations about the natural world. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 05. | Draw pictures that correctly portray features of the item being described. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 06. | Recognize that numbers can be used to count a collection of things. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 07. | Use appropriate tools and simple equipment/instruments to safely gather scientific data (e.g., magnifiers and other appropriate tools). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 08. | Measure the lengths of objects using non-standard methods of measurement (e.g., teddy bear counters and pennies). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 09. | Make pictographs and use them to describe observations and draw conclusions. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry / | 10. | Make new observations when people give different descriptions for the same thing. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Ask ""what happens when"" questions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Explore and pursue student-generated ""what happens when"" questions. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Use appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Work in a small group to complete an investigation and then share findings with others. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Create individual conclusions about group findings. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Use appropriate tools and simple equipment/instruments to safely gather scientific data (e.g., magnifiers, timers and simple balances and other appropriate tools). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 07. | Make estimates to compare familiar lengths, weights and time intervals. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 08. | Use oral, written and pictorial representation to communicate work. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 09. | Describe things as accurately as possible and compare with the observations of others. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Ask ""how can I/we"" questions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Ask ""how do you know"" questions (not ""why"" questions) in appropriate situations and attempt to give reasonable answers when others ask questions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Explore and pursue student-generated ""how"" questions. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Use appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Use evidence to develop explanations of scientific investigations. (What do you think? How do you know?) |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Recognize that explanations are generated in response to observations, events and phenomena. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 07. | Use appropriate tools and simple equipment/instruments to safely gather scientific data (e.g., magnifiers, non-breakable thermometers, timers, rulers, balances and calculators and other appropriate tools). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 08. | Measure properties of objects using tools such as rulers, balances and thermometers. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 09. | Use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure and describe things and experiences. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 10. | Share explanations with others to provide opportunities to ask questions, examine evidence and suggest alternative explanations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Select the appropriate tools and use relevant safety procedures to measure and record length and weight in metric and English units. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Discuss observations and measurements made by other people. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Read and interpret simple tables and graphs produced by self/others. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Identify and apply science safety procedures. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Record and organize observations (e.g., journals, charts and tables). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Communicate scientific findings to others through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures, written, oral and recorded observations). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Select the appropriate tools and use relevant safety procedures to measure and record length, weight, volume, temperature and area in metric and English units. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Analyze a series of events and/or simple daily or seasonal cycles, describe the patterns and infer the next likely occurrence. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Develop, design and conduct safe, simple investigations or experiments to answer questions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Explain the importance of keeping conditions the same in an experiment. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Describe how comparisons may not be fair when some conditions are not kept the same between experiments. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Formulate instructions and communicate data in a manner that allows others to understand and repeat an investigation or experiment. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Select and safely use the appropriate tools to collect data when conducting investigations and communicating findings to others (e.g., thermometers, timers, balances, spring scales, magnifiers, microscopes and other appropriate tools). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Evaluate observations and measurements made by other people and identify reasons for any discrepancies. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Use evidence and observations to explain and communicate the results of investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Identify one or two variables in a simple experiment. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Identify potential hazards and/or precautions involved in an investigation. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Explain why results of an experiment are sometimes different (e.g., because of unexpected differences in what is being investigated, unrealized differences in the methods used or in the circumstances in which the investigation was carried out, and because of errors in observations). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Explain that there are not fixed procedures for guiding scientific investigations; however, the nature of an investigation determines the procedures needed. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Choose the appropriate tools or instruments and use relevant safety procedures to complete scientific investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Distinguish between observation and inference. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Explain that a single example can never prove that something is always correct, but sometimes a single example can disprove something. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Explain that variables and controls can affect the results of an investigation and that ideally one variable should be tested at a time; however it is not always possible to control all variables. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Identify simple independent and dependent variables. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Formulate and identify questions to guide scientific investigations that connect to science concepts and can be answered through scientific investigations. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Choose the appropriate tools and instruments and use relevant safety procedures to complete scientific investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Analyze alternative scientific explanations and predictions and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a given set of data. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Identify faulty reasoning and statements that go beyond the evidence or misinterpret the evidence. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 07. | Use graphs, tables and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables (e.g., speed and density). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Choose the appropriate tools or instruments and use relevant safety procedures to complete scientific investigations. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Describe the concepts of sample size and control and explain how these affect scientific investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Read, construct and interpret data in various forms produced by self and others in both written and oral form (e.g., tables, charts, maps, graphs, diagrams and symbols). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Apply appropriate math skills to interpret quantitative data (e.g., mean, median and mode). |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Distinguish between observations and inferences given a scientific situation. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Research and apply appropriate safety precautions when designing and conducting scientific investigations (e.g., OSHA, Material Safety Data Sheets [MSDS], eyewash, goggles and ventilation). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Construct, interpret and apply physical and conceptual models that represent or explain systems, objects, events or concepts. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Decide what degree of precision based on the data is adequate and round off the results of calculator operations to the proper number of significant figures to reasonably reflect those of the inputs. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Develop oral and written presentations using clear language, accurate data, appropriate graphs, tables, maps and available technology. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 06. | Draw logical conclusions based on scientific knowledge and evidence from investigations. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Research and apply appropriate safety precautions when designing and conducting scientific investigations (e.g. OSHA, MSDS, eyewash, goggles and ventilation). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Present scientific findings using clear language, accurate data, appropriate graphs, tables, maps and available technology. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Use mathematical models to predict and analyze natural phenomena. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Draw conclusions from inquiries based on scientific knowledge and principles, the use of logic and evidence (data) from investigations. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Explain how new scientific data can cause any existing scientific explanation to be supported, revised or rejected. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Formulate testable hypotheses. Develop and explain the appropriate procedures, controls and variables (dependent and independent) in scientific experimentation. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Evaluate assumptions that have been used in reaching scientific conclusions. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Design and carry out scientific inquiry (investigation), communicate and critique results through peer review. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Explain why the methods of an investigation are based on the questions being asked. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Summarize data and construct a reasonable argument based on those data and other known information. |
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| Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 01. | Formulate testable hypotheses. Develop and explain the appropriate procedures, controls and variables (dependent and independent) in scientific experimentation. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 02. | Derive simple mathematical relationships that have predictive power from experimental data (e.g., derive an equation from a graph and vice versa, determine whether a linear or exponential relationship exists among the data in a table). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 03. | Research and apply appropriate safety precautions when designing and/or conducting scientific investigations (e.g., OSHA, MSDS, eyewash, goggles and ventilation). |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 04. | Create and clarify the method, procedures, controls and variables in complex scientific investigations. |
| | Doing Scientific Inquiry /| 05. | Use appropriate summary statistics to analyze and describe data. |
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| Last Updated on
June 29, 2007 |
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