What is when students are actively engaged in what they are learning?
Inquiry approach
100
What is a current viewpoint that is widely accepted by the scientific community?
A paradigm
100
What educational reformer was dismayed that teachers were not teaching through
experimentation and said that schools "separate knowledge from the very activities that
would give the knowledge meaning"?
John Dewey
100
Our planet is the ______ planet from the sun.
Third
100
What is the hottest planet?
Venus
200
What is a way of knowing, subject to change, supported by evidence, creative, observation and inference, has degree of subjectivity, is not derived from a single set of rules (scientific method)?
Nature of Science
200
What is the first step of developing inquiry in the classroom?
Asking students open-ended questions
200
When teaching students to make observations, we should encourage them to use
Their five senses
200
How many standard time zones are there in the continental United States?
4
200
Huge, unstable bodies apparently composed of gases, dust, ice, and small rocks are
called?
Comets
300
What does Scientific knowledge benefit?
The child and society as a whole
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is an alternative term used for the scientific method that is considered to be more
appealing?
The scientific process
300
Predicting and hypothesizing are special forms of
Inferring
300
Moon phases appear because
One half of the moon is lighted by sunshine as it revolves around the earth
300
The moon’s surface gravity is
1/6 that of the earth’s
400
When should the history of science be taught?
In all grades, from Kindergarten through 12th grade
400
What is the current paradigm for teaching and learning in science education?
Constructivist theory
400
In experimenting, we often guide students to state their hypothesis as operational
questions and help them control variables within their understanding. In the previous
sentence, operational means
Testable
400
What is caused by the interaction of the sun, moon, and Earth; Occur with both land and water; Occur with the atmosphereis
Tides
400
A collapsing supernova star, with a great amount of gas, will most likely become
A neutron star
500
What is the elementary teacher’s focus mostly on?
The process (inquiry)
500
What is the main difference between Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories?
If learning leads to development or if development precedes learning
500
When an experiment does not go as planned, we must
Theorize on the observations and results that we do have
500
A lunar eclipse happens when
The earth’s shadow falls on the moon
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Twice a month, unusually high and low tides occur, called