Content Standard
(National Science Education Standards)

Fundamental concepts and principles that underlie this standard include:

The Mystery of the Rising Water

Question the Answer

Life as we don't know it

Understanding scientific inquiry processes.

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Identifying questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.

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Designing and conducting a scientific investigation.

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Using appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.

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Developing descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.

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Thinking critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.

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Recognizing and analyzing alternative explanations and predictions.

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Communicating scientific procedures and explanations

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Using mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.

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Understanding properties and changes of properties in matter.

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Understanding structure and function in living systems.

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