SEP 1
A practice of science is to ask and refine questions that lead to descriptions and explanations of how the natural and designed world works and which can be empirically tested.
What is Asking Questions?
The products of science are explanations and the products of engineering are solutions.
What is Constructing Explanations?
Use data to predict how trees will change in a given time period.
What is Analyzing Data?
Formulate questions about how trees change from season to season.
What is Asking Questions?
Scientists and engineers plan and carry out investigations in the field or laboratory, working collaboratively as well as individually. Their investigations are systematic and require clarifying what counts as data and identifying variables or parameters.
What is Conducting Investigations?
Argumentation is the process by which explanations and solutions are reached.
What is Arguing From Evidence?
Identify different claims that can be made based on data and observation.
What is Arguing From Evidence?
Write an evidence-based account of what causes trees to change from one seasons to another.
What is Constructing Explanations?
A practice of both science and engineering is to use and construct models as helpful tools for representing ideas and explanations. These tools include diagrams, drawings, physical replicas, mathematical representations, analogies, and computer simulations.
What is Using Models?
In both science and engineering, mathematics and computation are fundamental tools for representing physical variables and their relationships. They are used for a range of tasks such as constructing simulations; statistically analyzing data; and recognizing, expressing, and applying quantitative relationships.
What is Using Mathematics?
Develop a timeline of tree changes over the course of the four seasons.
What is Using Models?
Present your findings in a report.
What is Communicating Information?
Scientific investigations produce data that must be analyzed in order to derive meaning. Because data patterns and trends are not always obvious, scientists use a range of tools to identify the significant features and patterns in the data. Scientists identify sources of error in the investigations and calculate the degree of certainty in the results.
What is Analyzing Data?
Scientists and engineers must be able to communicate clearly and persuasively the ideas and methods they generate. Critiquing and communicating ideas individually and in groups is a critical professional activity.
What is Communicating Ideas?
Create a plan to study tree transformation through the four seasons.
What is Conducting Investigations?
Use the timeline to calculate the number of days between each observable change.
What is Using Mathematics?