In this lab, you and your lab group will design an experiment to determine the effect of some environmental factor on plant growth. You will be engaging in which scientific practice?
What is "planning and carrying out investigations"?
100
A major activity in science is investigation and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they act. This pertains to which crosscutting concept?
What is "cause and effect: mechanisms & explanation"?
100
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Biology is a scientific discipline that uses the APA citation style.
What is "false"?
100
What is wrong with this in-text citation, according to the APA style: (Smith and Anderson 2011)
What is "and" should be "&"?
100
T/F
Science is fun!
What is "true"?!
200
Imagine you ask your 3rd graders to measure the amount of water they drink each day for a week. Then you ask them: "On average, how much water do you drink each day?" You would be engaging them in which scientific practice?
What is "using mathematics and computational thinking"?
200
The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and assembled determines many of its properties. This relates most to which CCC?
What is "structure and function"?
200
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When you use different words to express a similar meaning as stated in a source, it is plagiarism to fail to cite to the source.
What is "true"?
200
What is wrong with this in-text citation: (Smither, Anderson, Jackle, Ebony, Tam, and Lawry 2011)?
What is "shouldn't list all the authors if >3"? The correct citation is: (Smither, et al. 2011).
200
T/F
The science education offered in our country is exceptional, so there really is not a need to improve it.
What is "false"?! Our science education compares to some developing countries, despite the amount of money we spend on education.
300
Imagine that your 5th grade class has built a miniature town in a sand/water table so that when you pour water down the "river," the water flows just as it would through underground aquifers and across floodplains. Then you use food coloring to show what happens to water pollution in the town. What scientific practice have you engaged your students in?
What is "developing and using models"?
300
For natural and built systems, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution are examined by scientists across all fields of science. This relates to which CCC?
What is "stability and change"?
300
If you find information online, it is considered "in the public domain" and therefore doesn't need to be cited.
What is "uber-false"? Cite everything unless it's 100% original, people! ;)
300
What is wrong with this citation: (Willis, 2003)?
What is "there should be no comma"?
300
Imagine you are a 2nd grade teacher and you begin a lesson on food chains by reading a children's book about gardening. What phase in the 5E learning cycle have you engaged your students in?
What is "engage"?
400
Imagine you are guiding 6th graders, who are working in pairs, in developing their science fair projects. Two students would like to investigate plant growth according to different colors of light. One student thinks green light will cause more growth, while the other student thinks red light will cause more growth. They can't agree on what their hypothesis should be. You intervene by asking each student to give evidence for what they're each thinking. By asking this question, you've called upon them to engage in which scientific practice?
What is "engaging in argument from evidence"?
400
Observing common events or forms across many instances of a phenomenon allows scientists to ask questions about relationships and create classification systems. This is most related to which CCC?
What is "patterns"?
400
Sources in the References at the end of a document are listed in ___________.
What is "alphabetically by last name of the author"?
400
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If most of your document is comprised of ideas from a single source, you can just list the source in the References without using in-text citations for each sentence that contains ideas from that source.
What is "false"? If your document is really just others' ideas, paraphrased, you are committing plagiarism. You must incorporate your own ideas and synthesize them with ideas of others.
400
When students make a causal claim and back it up with evidence, which scientific practice are they engaging in?
What is "argue from evidence"?
500
Imagine you are teaching 4th grade, and you give your students a graph with carbon dioxide levels on the x-axis and global temperature on the y-axis. Then you ask them to draw a conclusion from the graph. What scientific practice have you asked them to engage in?
What is "analyzing and interpreting data"?
500
When examining natural phenomena, scientists recognize how different measures of time and size affect observations and a system's structure or performance. This recognition relates to which crosscutting concept?
What is "scale, proportion, and quantity"?
500
T/F
If you reference a source in the Reference list at the end of a document, you don't need to reference it in the text.
What is "false"?! Anything cited in the text must be in the Reference list and vice versa.
500
T/F
If all the information in a single paragraph comes from the same source, I can just put one in-text citation at the end of the paragraph.
What is "false"? All sentences that have information from another source need to contain an in-text citation.
500
Which of the 3 NGSS Dimensions is most like former editions of standards, in that it is a list of scientific ideas students should learn?