SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Develop students’ abilities to do and understand
scientific inquiry.
- Identify questions that can be answered through
scientific investigations.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather,
analyze, and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions,
and models using evidence.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and
predictions.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
CONTENT: LIFE SCIENCE
Develop students’ understanding of life science.
- Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate
the complementary nature of structure and function.
Important levels include cells, tissues, organs, organ
systems, and whole organisms.
- All organisms are composed of cells—the fundamental
unit of life. Most organisms are single cells; other
organisms are multicellular.
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- Cells carry on the many functions needed to sustain
life.
- Specialized cells perform specialized functions
in multicellular organisms.
- All organisms must be able to obtain and use resources,
grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions
while living in a constantly changing external environment.
Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make
to an internal or environmental stimulus.
- Millions of species of animals, plants, and microorganisms
are alive today.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Develop students’
understandings of science and technology.
- Technology influences society through its products
and processes.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
Develop an understanding of science as a human endeavor
that has taken place over time.
- Scientists formulate and test their explanations
of nature, using observations, experiments, and models.
Although all scientific ideas are tentative and subject
to change and improvement in principle, for most major
ideas in science, there is much experimental and observational
confirmation.
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