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Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence. Students should base their explanation on what they observed, and as they develop cognitive skills, they should be able to differentiate explanation from description, providing causes for effects and establishing relationships based on evidence and logical argument. This standards requires a subject knowledge base so the students can effectively conduct investigations, because developing explanations establishes connections between the content of science and the contexts within which students develop new knowledge.
2047   Admin  
Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations. Thinking critically about evidence includes deciding what evidence should be used and accounting for anomalous data. Specifically, students should be able to review data from a simple experiment, summarize the data, and form a logical argument about the cause-and-effect relationships in the experiment. Students should begin to state some explanations in terms of the relationship between two or more variables.
2048   Admin  
Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions. Students should develop the ability to listen and to respect the explanations proposed by other students. They should remain open to and acknowledge different ideas and explanations, be able to accept the skepticism of others, and consider alternative explanations.
2049   Admin  
Communicate scientific procedures and explanations. With practice, students should become competent at communicating experimental methods, following instructions, describing observations, summarizing the results of other groups, and telling other students about investigations and explanations.
2050   Admin  
Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry. Mathematics is essential to asking and answering questions about the natural world. Mathematics can be used to ask questions; to gather, organize, and present data; and to structure convincing explanations.
2051   Admin  
Unifying Concepts 1.1 - Systems, order, and organization
The goal of this standard is to think and analyze in terms of systems.
2212 PADI lructtinger  
Unifying Concepts 1.3 - Constancy, change, and measurement
Some properties of objects and processes are characterized by constancy, other by change. These may include properties of materials, position of objects, motion, and form and function of systems. Interactions within and among systems result in changes which can be quantified. Different systems of measurement are used for different purposes. Scale includes understanding that different characteristics, properties, or relationships within a system might change as its dimensions are increased or decreased. Rate involves comparing one measured quantity with another measured quantity.
2213 PADI lructtinger  
Unifying Concepts 1.4 - Evolution and equilibrium
The general idea of evolution is that the present arises from materials and forms of the past. Equilibrium is a physical state in which forces and changes occur in opposite and off-setting directions. Interacting units of matter tend toward equilibrium states in which the energy is distributed as randomly and uniformly as possible.
2214 PADI lructtinger  

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