Science Practices
We'll use these all year long...so get familiar with them!
We'll use these all year long...so get familiar with them!
1.1 Create representations and models of natural or man-made phenomena and systems in the domain.
1.2 Describe representations and models of natural or man-made phenomena and systems in the domain.
1.3 Refine representations and models of natural or man-made phenomena and systems in the domain.
1.4 Use representations and models to analyze situations or solve problems qualitatively and quantitatively.
1.5 Re-express key elements of natural phenomena across multiple representations in the domain.
2.1 Justify the selection of a mathematical routine to solve problems.
2.2 Apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe natural phenomena.
2.3 Estimate numerically quantities that describe natural phenomena.
3.1 Pose scientific questions.
3.2 Refine scientific questions.
3.3 Evaluate scientific questions.
4.1 Justify the selection of the kind of data needed to answer a particular scientific question.
4.2 Design a plan for collecting data to answer a particular scientific question.
4.3 Collect data to answer a particular scientific question.
4.4 Evaluate sources of data to answer a particular scientific question.
5.1 Analyze data to identify patterns or relationships.
5.2 Refine observations and measurements based on data analysis.
5.3 Evaluate the evidence provided by data sets in relation to a particular scientific question.
6.1 Justify claims with evidence.
6.2 Construct explanations of phenomena based on evidence produced through scientific practices.
6.3 Articulate the reasons that scientific explanations and theories are refined or replaced.
6.4 Make claims and predictions about natural phenomena based on scientific theories and models.
6.5 Evaluate alternative scientific explanations.
7.1 Connect phenomena and models across spatial and temporal scales.
7.2 Connect concepts in and across domain(s) to generalize or extrapolate in and/or across EUs and/or big ideas.