Texes Prep: Science

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Begins in the planning stages, where activities need to be evaluated and risks minimized.

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Laboratory safety

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Where information is kept concerning every chemical substance with with students may come in contact with

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Material Safety Data Sheet

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Document containing the safety practices and standards for the state of Texas

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Texas Safety Standards

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Used in early grades to indicate less-than and more-than relationships with regard to weight.

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double-pan balances

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Curved liquid on the sides of graduated cylinders

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meniscus

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always plotted on the x-axis (horizontal) of a graph

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manipulative variable (MV)

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always plotting on the y-axis (vertical) of a graph

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responding variable (RV)

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designed and manufactured specifically for liquid measurement

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graduated cylinders

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this International System of Units was adopted internationally for use in 1960

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metric system

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The metric system's base unit for mass

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gram

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The metric system's base unit for length

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meter

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The metric system's base unit for volume

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liter

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Includes observing, classifying, measuring, and communicating

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basic science process skills

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Using the five senses to describe objects and events. Can be qualitative (color, shape) or quantitative (length, mass, volume)

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observing

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sorting objects or events into groups based on common characteristics or attributes

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classifying

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determining the length, volume, mass, temperature, or area to describe and quantify objects

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measuring

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sharing observations and explanations of objects or events with others

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communicating

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Includes inferring and predicting, using variables, representing data, and experimenting

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integrated process skills

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explaining or drawing conclusions about an object or future event based upon observations

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inferring and predicting

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studying effects of manipulating and controlling variables

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using variables

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organizing observations and measurements to make data useful

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representing data

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using the process skills necessary to ask a question, plan an investigation, collect data, and form a conclusion

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experimenting

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specific processes and criteria to investigate and interpret the natural world

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scientific method

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first of the processes in the scientific method - can be gained from the senses and/or enhanced through technology

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observations

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an "educated guess" within the scientific method

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hypothesis

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factor that affects the outcome of the experiment

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variable

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a general explanation of a gropu of related phenomena

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scientific theory

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It's goal is to foster engagement, scientific thinking processes, and student-generated generalizations

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inquiry-based or discovery approach

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the ability to hold or save a mental picture and ability to reverse physical change

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conservation

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5Es of the learning cycle

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Engage
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Evaluate

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The teacher gains attention and uses a focus to introduce the lesson

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Engage

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A natural response that encourages curiosity and stimulates more questions

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Explore

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In this step, it is the teacher's role to define vocabulary, clarify results and help draw conclusions

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Explain

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allows the student to use and transfer the concept knowledge in a new way

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Elaborate

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Includes diagnostic, formative, and summative

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Evaluation

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Formulated the theory of relativity

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Albert Einstein

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Invented electricity

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Thomas Edison

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Formulated laws of motion

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Sir Issac Newton

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Discovered radioactivity

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Madame Curie

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first Hispanic surgeon general

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Antonio Novello

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first African American woman in space

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Mae Jemison

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African American doctor who performed the first successful heart surgery

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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

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Invented pasteurization

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Louis Pasteur

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only woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for genetic research

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Barbara McClintock

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drew the patent for Alexander Graham Bell's original telephone and invented the carbon filament for the incandescent electric light

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Lewis Latimer

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Invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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a pioneer researcher in the earea of blood plasma preservation, saving thousands of soldiers' lives in WWII through establishment of blood banks

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Charles Drew

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was denounced as a hysterical woman for her attention to environmental issues

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Rachel Carson

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the first US woman to go into space

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Sally Ride

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weather, seasons, life cycles

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changes

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Is Eukaryotic with our without nucleous?

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With Nucloues

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Only group of living organisms made of prokaryotic cells.

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Monera

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Examples of this organism are: bacteria, blue-green algea, adn spirochetes.

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Monera

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Organisms from this kingdom live in either fresh or salt water.

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Protista

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Organisms from this kingdom are neither plant or animal.

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Protista

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Examples of organisms from the Protista group are:

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Algea, Ameoba, Paramecium, Euglena.

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Obtains energy from carbon, and water and from digesting dead materials.

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Fungi

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Examples from this group are: Mushrooms, mold, mildew, and yeast.

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Fungi

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What kingdom does moss and ferns fall under?

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Plants

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What kingdom doe these things fall under: sponges, worms, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.

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Animals.