Priorities in Science
Interconnections within Systems: This theme focuses on helping students explore the components of various systems and then investigate dynamic and sustainable relationships within systems using scientific inquiry |
What Good Student Scientists Do:
• Ask testable questions • Propose possible questions • Create a plan to solve a problem • Develop ways to explain their work • Wonder about how the world around them works • Seek new ways to find a solution • Use technology to investigate or communicate • Learn by making mistakes • Gather and represent data to explain things • Skeptical of claims without evidence • Try to make sense of problems and propose solutions • Construct good scientific arguments with evidence to support or disprove claims • Attend safety, accuracy and precision in their work • Use mathematics to model real situations • Try to improve on their own or others’ ideas • Are curious students that tinker and play with ideas |