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Enduring Understandings
- important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the
instruction received this year.
- Scientists investigate the world around them and
communicate to others through the scientific process.
- The scientific process is the basis of an integrated
approach to understanding our world. (topic/problem, testable question,
hypothesis, procedure)
- Scientists use a plan to carry out an investigation
(variables, control, data, observations, investigations).
- Scientists select, appropriate tools to collect,
organize, and record data using the metric system in tables, charts, and
graphs.
- Scientists analyze data for reliability, validity to
form conclusions. Scientists analyze data to infer past and predict
future events. Scientists communicate the results of their
investigations in many formats and appropriate ways.
- Scientists identify, determine, compare, and control
variables. Scientists must be objective and bias free when examining
their work. Scientists communicate their results using various methods.
Scientists use models to predict change.
- All matter exists in specific states (e.g. solid,
liquid, gas, plasma) and has characteristic chemical and physical
properties.
- Experiments must be controlled and have reproducible
results.
- All matter has characteristic chemical and physical
properties which can be described, and a variety of quantities can be
compared (Conservation of Matter).
- Elements are pure substances that can not be broken
down by routine laboratory procedures; compounds are pure substances
that are formed by the combination of elements in definite proportions.
All forms of matter are composed of one or more of the elements
- The Periodic Table of Elements is both a tool and an
organized arrangement of the elements that demonstrates the underlying
atomic structure of the elements.
- There are measurable properties of kinetic and
potential energy.
- Different simple machines produce different
mechanical advantages.
- Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
- The world population uses both renewable and
nonrenewable resources.
- The world is affected by the interrelationship of
science and technology. New technology continually impacts human
activity
- Safety is a primary concern with all laboratory
techniques.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
- What is a testable question that leads to a
proposed hypothesis? How is a testable question developed?
- How do scientists design a plan for investigating
a testable questions? How is an investigation organized?
- How do scientists develop and perform a
scientific investigation? What are the independent/manipulated and
dependent/responding variables? What is the standard of control?
- What are the appropriate tools, technologies, and
measurement systems used by scientists?
- How do scientists interpret and evaluate data?
How do scientists infer/predict past and future events?
- What new questions have arisen based on
unexpected results of the investigation? How is scientific
information effectively communicated to specific audiences?
- What is the difference between a physical and
chemical change? How can substances be separated chemically or
physically? How can matter be classified?
- What does the arrangement of elements in The
Periodic Table of Elements tell us about an element?
- How can one recognize the advantages of different
simple machines?
- How can we recognize the changes in energy?
- What are the differences between and uses of
renewable and nonrenewable resources?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of
using technology to solve problems?
- How do people use science and technology in their
professional lives?
- How do controlled/uncontrolled variables affect
the outcomes of experiments?
- How do you identify, compare, and control
variables in an investigation?
- How does bias, opinion, and evidence affect the
way science is communicated in various media?
- What are some different sources and methods a
scientist uses to collect and record data?
- How can models help us predict future outcomes?
- What are safe laboratory practices?
Standards
 Highest
Frequency Standards
 High
Frequency Standards,
 Other
Standards & E-skills
Standard 1: Students understand the processes of
scientific investigations and design, conduct, communicate about, and
evaluate such investigation.
Standard 2: Physical Science: Students know and
understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy.
Students know that matter has characteristic properties which are
related to its composition and structure. Students understand that
energy appears in different forms and can move (be transferred) and
change (be transformed). Students understand that interactions can
produce changes in a system, although the total quantities of matter and
energy remain unchanged.
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