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What is science? |
-a body of knowledge and the processes used to establish this knowledge |
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Science is an attempt to understand the world by: |
-questioning, investigation, and observing what happens -trying to make sense of our observations -using our new knowledge to make predictions about what might happen in the future -testing our predictions to see if your understanding is correct |
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How do you know what science concepts to teacher your students? |
the state standards and performance indicators |
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Why should children learn science? |
It provides opportunities for children to: -exercise their curiosity -learn about the natural world -develop problem-solving skills -develop inquiry abilities -develop language arts and math skills -build their scientific literacy |
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How do children learn best? |
-exploration -enhancing inquiry skills (critical thinking/problems solving) -activities that attend to prior knowledge -broad conceptual themes across science disciplines |
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What is the nature of science? |
Science is: -dynamic -a human endeavor -has limitations -tentative and reliable at the same time -raising questions, searching for evidence, forming explanations, making and testing predictions, and revising scientific understanding -based on evidence |
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What is science influenced by? |
-current specific knowledge, context and culture of researcher and researcher's expectations and experiences |
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True or False: There is no single scientific method that truly captures the complex nature of doing science. |
True |
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True or False: Science requires creativity and is not limited to naturalistic methods and explanations. |
False; it IS limited |
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How can we communicate our ways of classifying data? |
-written descriptions -verbal description -symbolic representation (graphs, tables, venn diagrams, charts, outlines, drawings) |
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When should you use a line graph? |
to track changes over short and long periods of time or to compare changes over the same period of time for more than one group |
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When should you use a pie chart? |
when you are trying to compare parts of a whole |
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When should you use a bar graph? |
to compare things between different groups or track changes over time |
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What is the difference between a prediction and a hypothesis? |
-a prediction is what you think will happen based on prior knowledge-a hypothesis is what you think will happen plus an experimental design to test it; it is a guess with a reason |
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What is science literacy? |
-the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision-making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity |
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What is the difference between a theory and a law? |
-laws are generalizations or universal relationships related to the way that some aspect of the natural world behaves under certain conditions -theories are inferred explanations of some aspect of the natural world -theories explain laws but some laws do not have accompanying theories |
