Investigating Practices
Sense-making Practices
Critiquing Practices
SEP's
100

What is the first step in investigating practices?

Asking Questions

100

What is SEP number of Developing and Using Models?

What is SEP 2?

100

Critiquing Practices come in later in the instructional sequence when students have had some time to develop and form their understandings. True or False

True

100

List examples of all the 8 SEP’s

Answers may vary 

200

What are the Investigating Practices all about?

Investigating Practices are all about helping students discover the content

200

What are the Sensemaking practices all about?

Sensemaking practices help support students as they organize their observations to explain a phenomenon.

200

What are the critiquing practices all about?

Critiquing Practices ask students to dive deeper, think more critically, and develop the skills to evaluate ideas and defend their understandings.

200

How many practices are in SEp's 

8
300

SEP 5

What is Using Mathematical and Computational Thinking?

300

 Constructing Explanations is SEP 4 True or False

False

300

SEP 8

 Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information.

300


The science and engineering practices work together to achieve four paths of sense-making. This diagram illustrates how the practice always operates in conjunction with each other.

400

How Light affects plant growth is an example of which Investigating Practice

What is Asking Questions?

400

SEP 4

Constructing Explanations 

400

You and your friend Jerry are fighting about which football team is better.  Jerry cuts the TV on and explains how his favorite team is better. What critique practice is this?

What is engaging in argument from evidence?

400

Name all the SEP's and its number.

Asking Questions (SEP 1), Developing and Using Models (SEP 2), Planning and Carrying Out Investigations (SEP 3), Analyzing and Interpreting Data (SEP 4), Using Mathematical and Computational Thinking (SEP 5), Constructing Explanations (SEP 6), Engaging in Argument from Evidence (SEP 7) Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information (SEP 8)

500

True or false During the Investating Practices you are making observations to develop questions and investigating questions to collect data.

True

500

List all the sense-making practices

Developing and Using Models, Analyzing and Interpreting Data, and Constructing Explanations

500

Why do we do use critiquing practices? 

Answers may vary.

500

What does the acronym S.E.P mean?

Science and Engineering Practices 

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