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FOSS AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
The Models and Designs Module encourages
students to develop the skills of investigation in order to
build explanations based on knowledge and evidence. This module
supports the following National Science Education Standards.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Develop students' abilities to do and understand scientific
inquiry.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze,
and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make the connections
between evidence and explanations.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
- Communicate procedures and explanations.
- Understand that scientists use different kinds of investigations
and tools to develop explanations using evidence and knowledge.
CONTENT: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Develop students' understanding of energy transfer.
- Energy is associated with electricity, mechanical motion,
and sound. Electric circuits transfer electric energy.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Develop students' abilities in technological design.
- Design a solution or product.
- Implement a proposed design.
- Evaluate completed technological designs or products.
- Communicate the process of technological design.
Develop students' understandings about science and
technology.
- Technological designs have constraints due to properties
of materials and friction.
- Scientists and engineers work collaboratively in teams
and use tools and scientific techniques to make better observations.
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