1. Students
demonstrate the skills necessary to engage in scientific
inquiry.
Develop questions and hypotheses
that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer
questions or to test hypotheses.
Collect, organize, analyze and display
data/information using tools, equipment, & techniques
that will help in data collection, analysis & interpretation.
Develop conclusions & explanations showing the relationship
between evidence & results drawn.
Communicate & defend
scientific procedure used & conclusion
and explanation drawn from evidence.
Reflect & revise
conclusion and explanation based on new evidence given
from other valid points of view.
Develop & clarify
questions & hypotheses that guide scientific investigations.
· Design and conduct scientific investigations to test
hypotheses.
Organize, analyze, validate and display data/information
in ways appropriate to scientific investigations, using
technology & mathematics.
Formulate scientific explanations & conclusions
and models using logic and evidence.
Communicate & defend
scientific explanations and conclusions.
Identify and
analyze alternative explanations & conclusions
and models.
Revise scientific explanations and conclusions
based on additional information/data gathered.
LIVING THE VALUES, ATTITUDES
AND COMMITMENTS OF THE INQUIRING MIND
2. Students apply
the values, attitudes & commitments characteristic
of an inquiring mind.
HONESTY
Report observations
even when they contradict a hypothesis.
Acknowledge references,
contributions & work done by others.
CRITICAL-MINDEDNESS
Evaluate empirical evidence to develop reasonable
conclusions and explanations and compare them to current
scientific knowledge.
OBJECTIVITY
Examine several possible
options when investigating a problem. Distinguish between
facts and speculations/inferences.
OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Evaluate
all evidence that support or contradict the hypothesis.
QUESTIONING
Ask questions to understand the multiple
perspectives and interpretations of a problem, situation,
or solution.
SELF-DIRECTED
Locate, identify, & use
a variety of appropriate information to draw conclusions
in a research project.
VALUE SCIENCE
Ask questions
and explain findings and answers scientifically.
HONESTY
Report findings accurately without
alterations & draw conclusions
from unaltered findings.
Acknowledge references, contributions & work
done by others.
CRITICAL-MINDEDNESS
Evaluate the logic
and validity of evidence, conclusions, and explanations
against current scientific knowledge.
OBJECTIVITY
Evaluate
various perspectives and their implications before drawing
conclusions.
OPEN-MINDEDNESS
When appropriate, modify
ideas, explanations, and hypotheses, based on empirical
data or evidence.
QUESTIONING
Ask questions to clarify
or validate purpose, perspective, assumptions, interpretations,
and implications of a problem, situation or solution.
SELF-DIRECTED
Use research techniques & a
variety of resources to complete a report on a project
of one‘s choice.
VALUE SCIENCE
Ask questions, explain & elaborate
how science is a way of thinking and knowing the world
around us.
USING UNIFYING
CONCEPTS & THEMES
3. Students use concepts and
themes such as system, change, scale & model to help
them understand and explain the natural world.
CHANGE
Identify patterns of change and the
implications on a system.
CHANGE
Explain the effect of large and small
disturbances on systems in the natural world.
DOING SAFETY
4. Students demonstrate the importance
of safety by applying safety skills in all activities.
Apply school, classroom, laboratory & field
trip rules as appropriate, to maintain a safe learning
environment.
Identify potentially unsafe conditions prior to the activity
and explain how accidents can be prevented.
Use supplies,
chemicals, and equipment as instructed and for the
purposes they were intended under teacher supervision.
Assist
teacher as requested in case of emergency.
Document
and apply appropriate safety protocols when conducting
scientific activities in and out of the classroom.
Apply school, classroom, laboratory & field
trip rules as appropriate, to maintain a safe learning
environment.
Identify potentially unsafe conditions prior to the activity
and explain how accidents can be
Follow most recent protocols
established by the International Science & Engineering
Fair when conducting any investigations on living and
non-living organisms and under teacher/mentor supervision.
Assist
teacher as requested in case of emergency.
Document and
apply appropriate safety protocols when conducting
scientific activities in and out of the classroom.
