THE LENS OF SCIENCE: A Look at Scientific Skills & Inquiry
Essential Questions:
- What is my role in this scientific community?
- How is science different from other ways of knowing?
- How do scientists do their work?
Content:
- Scientific Habits of Mind
- Observation versus Inference
- Variables
- The Scientific Process
- Research Design
- Data Analysis
Skills and Processes:
- Identifying and using lab equipment properly
- Questioning like a scientist
- Observing and Inferring
- Collaborating on research design
- graphing
- Peer-reviewing and group editing on google docs
Assessment:
- Lab Report
- Self reflection
- Homework
- Discussions
Resources:
- Learnedtech.com Scientific Method Webquest
- Inquiry Cubes, The Science Teacher
- GEMs Dry Ice Investigations
- Create a Graph web tools
Multicultural Dimension:
- Addressing & challenging the stereotypes around science and scientists
- Assertion that everyone can be a scientist
Integrated Learning:
- Historical perspectives on science
- The science and math of data analysis and graphing
- Scientific writing