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Nature of Science
Developmental Levels
Mental Functioning Model
5E Learning Cycle
Science Standards
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This element of the Nature of Science is that people of all ages, races, sexes, and nationalities engage in science
What is SCIENCE IS A HUMAN ENDEAVOR?
100
According to Piaget's theory of development, these two levels comprise most children in elementary school classrooms
What are PRE-OPERATIONAL and CONCRETE OPERATIONAL levels?
100
Process of incorporating data into existing structures
What is ASSIMILATION?
100
This phase is when students' ideas, concepts, and practices are formally (summatively) assessed?
What is the EVALUATE phase?
100
This is the meaning of NGSS
What is the Next Generation Science Standards?
200
This element of the Nature of Science is if the student would do the same thing again and get similar results
What is SCIENCE IS REPEATABLE?
200
This explains why young children see the world from only their point of view
What is EGOCENTRIC?
200
This is the realization that a student's mental structure and incoming data from the environment do not align
What is DISEQUILIBRIUM?
200
The phase where students first observe and collect data
What is the Explore?
200
This is the meaning of OASS
What is the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science?
300
This part of science helps us understand the characteristics of science
What is the NATURE OF SCIENCE?
300
Young learners tend to focus their attention on only one aspect
What is CENTERING?
300
This is the process when the student adjusts or changes his/her mental structure
What is ACCOMMODATION (EQUILIBRIUM)?
300
The purpose of this phase is for students to expand the newly developed concept into a new context.
What is the ELABORATE?
300
How student understanding is identified in our standards
What is a Performance Expectation?
400
This element of the Nature of Science is that science can change as new information is found
What is SCIENCE IS TENTATIVE?
400
Young students cannot hold original images in their head…only the most recent image is maintained
What is CONSERVATION REASONING?
400
This is the process when a student relates his/her new mental structure with previous mental structures
What is ORGANIZATION?
400
During this phase class data are compared, explanations are constructed, and relevant scientific terms are provided.
What is the EXPLAIN?
400
This element of the standards focuses on defining problems, developing solutions, and optimizing solutions
What is engineering?
500
Science is based on this type of data—not faith or logic
What is EVIDENCE?
500
This type of learner begins to use deductive reasoning (from the whole to the particular) and inductive reasoning (from the particular to the whole)
What is CONCRETE OPERATIONAL?
500
This is the teaching approach and curriculum development model that aligns with the Mental Functioning Model
What is the (5E) Learning Cycle?
500
The purpose of this phase is to determine students' interests in the content and identify preconceptions students bring to their learning.
What is the ENGAGE?
500
Scientific and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas
What are the three dimensions of our science standards?