Resource Detail: Journal Article

This resource has 11 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Science as Inquiry
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    • Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
    • Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
    • Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications. (9-12)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry
    • Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).
    • Technology used to gather data enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations. (5-8)
    • Scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. (9-12)

• Teaching Standards
  • Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science program for their students.
    • Select science content and adapt and design curricula to meet the interests, knowledge, understanding, abilities, and experiences of students.
  • 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.
    • Make the available science tools, materials, media, and technological resources accessible to students.
    • Identify and use resources outside the school.

• Science and Technology
  • Abilities of technological design
    • NA