SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Develop students’ abilities to do and understand
scientific inquiry - Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather,
analyze, and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions,
and models using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make the connections
between evidence and explanations.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize
evidence.
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CONTENT: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Develop students’ understanding of
properties and changes of properties in
matter and understandings of transfer of
energy.
- A substance has characteristic
properties such as density, a boiling
point, and solubility, all of which are independent of the amount of the sample. A mixture of substances
often can be separated into the
original substances using one or
more of the characteristic properties.
- Substances react chemically in
characteristic ways with other
substances to form new substances
(compounds) with different
characteristic properties. In chemical reactions, the total mass is conserved. Substances often are placed in categories or groups if they react in similar ways; metals is an example of such a group.
- Chemical elements do not break
down during normal laboratory
reactions involving such treatments
as heating, exposure to electric
current, or reaction with acids. There are more than 100 known elements (90 of them naturally occurring) that combine in a multitude of ways to produce compounds, which account
for the living and nonliving
substances that we encounter.
- Energy is a property of many
substances and is associated with
heat and the nature of a chemical.
Heat moves in predictable ways,
flowing from warmer objects to
cooler ones, until both reach the same temperature. In most chemical
reactions, energy is transferred into
or out of a system.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
Develop students’ understanding of the
nature of scientific inquiry.
- Scientists formulate and test their
explanations of nature, using
observation, experiments, and
theoretical and mathematical models.
Although all scientific ideas are
subject to change and improvement
in principle, for most major ideas
science, there is much experimental
and observational confirmation.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
Develop students’ understanding of personal health.
- Safe living involves the development and use
of safety precautions and the recognition of risk in
decisions.
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