Employing Scientific Reasoning

(6.1) Levels of Reasoning

• Bloom's Taxonomy

(6.2) Inductive Reasoning

• 5E model of instruction

• Density and Buoyancy- What causes something to sink or float?

• Mitosis - What inferences can you make?

• Harmonic Motion (pendulums)- Devise an equation (model) for period of a pendulum

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes- What inferences can you make?

(6.3) Deductive Reasoning

• Epidemiology - Contact tracing - Who is the source of the disease?

• Periodic Table of the Elements - Deduce the missing elements. 

• Atomic Radius - Predict relative atomic radii and reactivity of the elements (Nearpod lesson)

• Energy Transfer - Determine the unknown element

(6.4) Lateral Thinking 

• Lateral Thinking - Thinking "outside the box"