Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in K–2 builds on prior experiences and uses observations and texts to communicate new information. 

•  Read grade-appropriate texts and/or use media to obtain scientific and/or technical information to determine  patterns in and/or evidence about the natural and designed world(s).  

• Describe how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) support a scientific or engineering idea.  

• Obtain information using various texts, text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons), and other media that will be useful in answering a scientific question and/or supporting a scientific claim.  

• Communicate information or design ideas and/or solutions with others in oral and/or written forms using models, drawings, writing, or numbers that provide detail about scientific ideas, practices, and/or design ideas. 

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to evaluating the merit and accuracy of ideas and methods.  

• Read and comprehend grade appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.   

• Compare and/or combine across complex texts and/or other reliable media to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.  

• Combine information in written text with that contained in corresponding tables, diagrams, and/or charts to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.  

• Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain phenomena or solutions to a design problem.  

• Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats, including various forms of media as well as tables, diagrams, and charts. 

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to evaluating the merit and validity of ideas and methods.  

• Critically read scientific texts adapted for classroom use to determine the central ideas and/or obtain scientific and/or technical information to describe patterns in and/or evidence about the natural and designed world(s).  

• Integrate qualitative and/or quantitative scientific and/or technical information in written text with that contained in media and visual displays to clarify claims and findings.  

• Gather, read, and synthesize information from multiple appropriate sources and assess the credibility, accuracy, and possible bias of each publication and methods used, and describe how they are supported or not supported by evidence.  

• Evaluate data, hypotheses, and/or conclusions in scientific and technical texts in light of competing information or accounts.  

• Communicate scientific and/or technical information (e.g. about a proposed object, tool, process, system) in writing and/or through oral presentations.