Resource Detail: Journal Article

This resource has 15 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Science as Inquiry
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    • Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
    • Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
    • Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
    • Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
    • Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations. (9-12)
    • Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence. (9-12)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry
    • Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).
    • Scientists develop explanations using observations (evidence) and what they already know about the world (scientific knowledge). Good explanations are based on evidence from investigations. (K-4)

• Process Standards for Professional Development
  • Learning
    • Build on the teacher's current science understanding, ability, and attitudes. (NSES)
    • Incorporate ongoing reflection on the process and outcomes of understanding science through inquiry. (NSES)

• Teaching Standards
  • Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science program for their students.
    • Select teaching and assessment strategies that support the development of student understanding and nurture a community of science learners.
  • Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning. In doing this, teachers
    • Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry, as well as the curiosity, openness to new ideas and data, and skepticism that characterize science.
    • Challenge students to accept and share responsibility for their own learning.
  • Teachers provide students with the time, space, and resources needed to learn science.
    • Create a setting for student work that is flexible and supportive of science inquiry.
    • Engage students in designing the learning environment.