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The breaking down and carrying away of rock and soil caused by such forces as wind and flowing water
Erosion
The series of changes in the life of an organism, including reproduction
Life cycles
Use senses to explore environment. Learn concepts of size, weight, shape, temporal sequences, space, spatial sense, sorting, and part-to-whole relationships.
Developmental process of learning science
When any physical object moves back and forth rapidly. movements represent a form of energy which, as it moves, takes the form of sound waves
Vibration
Focuses on parts and wholes of objects and changes of state. Although the chemical change context of this probe is rather sophisticated for elementary students, it can be used to find out their intuitive ideas about the change from a shiny nail to a rusted nail
Conservation of Matter
Limitation that dictates the maximum score that can be achieved by a learner
Ceiling Effect
Teachable moments. reinforce basic concepts during a naturalistic activity
Informal learning experience
Smallest units of matter
Atoms
This type of science focuses on personal health and science characteristics among populations
Social Science
Limitation that dictates the minimum score that can be achieved by a learner
Floor Effect
The adult pre-plans and initiates the activity/lesson, and provides the child with some direction
Structured learning experiences
Anything that does not have mass or occupy space but affects matter and space
Energy
This type of science focuses on the characteristics and life cycle of organisms
Life Science
Intent to avoid a certain behavior produces that very behavior
Ironic Effect
Including diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment
Formative assessment
Anything that has mass and takes up space. states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas
Matter
This type of science focuses on the properties of material, an object's position and motion, and light, heat, electricity, and magnetism.
Physical Science
A process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy, normally from the Sun, into chemical energy that can be later released to fuel the organisms' activities
Photosynthesis
Are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period—typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year
Summative assessment
1) Observation (using the senses to identify properties of objects/situations), 2) Classification (grouping objects/situations according to common properties, 3) Measurement (quantifying physical properties), 4) Communication (using observations, classifications, and measurements to report experimental results to others), 5) Inference (finding patterns and meaning in experiment results, non-objective), 6) Prediction (using experimental experience to formulate new hypotheses, non-objective)
Science process skills
This type of science Focuses on earth and atmospheric properties
Earth Science
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration
Water Cycle
Is a method of teaching and learning that involves both process and product. It is not just a testing strategy. Performance assessment tasks involve students in constructing various types of products for diverse audiences
Performance assessment
1) Ask a question, 2) Form a hypothesis, 3) Design and conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis, 4) Decide whether results prove/disprove hypothesis, 5) Report results and conclusions
Scientific method
In geology: the process by which collision of the earth's crustal plates results in one plate's being drawn down or overridden by another, localized along the juncture (subduction zone) of two plates
Subduction
A process for observation and analysis used to develop a reliable, consistent and objective understanding of the world. Scientific method is a process used to identify a problem or question, describe and formulate hypotheses, make predictions based on the hypotheses, test these predictions with experiments, interpret the results, and derive conclusions.
Scientific Method
Tests and assessments are designed to measure student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards—i.e., concise, written descriptions of what students are expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education
Criterion-referenced assessment
The study of the interactions between organisms and their environments. Abiotic factors (not alive) include sunlight, the atmosphere, water, soil, temperatures, and nutrient cycles. Biotic factors are the living organisms within any ecosystem (humans, animals, and plants) and the interactions that occur between them
Ecology