SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Develop students’ abilities to do and understand
scientific inquiry.
- Identify questions that can be answered through
scientific investigations and 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.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize
evidence.
CONTENT: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Develop students’ understanding of energy and
energy transfer.
- Energy is a property of many
substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity,
mechanical motion, sound, nuclei, and the nature of
a chemical. Energy is transferred in many ways.
- Electric circuits provide a means of transferring
electric energy when heat, light, sound, and chemical
changes are produced.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Develop students’ ability in technological design
and understanding of science and technology.
- Design, implement, and evaluate a technological
design or product.
- Scientific inquiry and technological design have
similarities and differences. Scientists propose explanations
for questions about the natural world, and engineers
propose solutions relating to human problems, needs,
and aspirations.
- Science helps drive technology as it addresses
questions that demand more sophisticated tools and provides
principles for better instrumentation and technique.
Technology is essential to science, because it providesinstruments
and techniques that enable observations of objects and
phenomena that are otherwise unobservable. Science and
technology are reciprocal.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
Develop an understanding of science and technology
in society.
- Technology influences society—the quality
of life and the ways people act and interact—through
its products and processes.
- Technology advances through the contributions
of many different people.
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