Science Exam #1 Flashcards
What is science?
Science is the process, a pursuit, practical activity and application. Science is a way of knowing- understanding/ explaining the natural world.
Topics identified within the different areas of science.
Life science: The human body, plant and animal cells, heredity.
Earth and Space (Astronomy and Geology) : Rocks, planets
Physical science: Gravity, inertia, energy and conservation
Hypothesis
An educated guess based on observations and your knowledge of the topic.
Inference
An idea explained as a reaction to what was observed
Classifying
The process scientists use to impose order on collections of objects or events
Inquiry strategies in science
-Asking questions
-Developing models
-Planning and carrying out investigations
-Analyzing and interpreting data
Scope
The range and depth of content
Sequence
The order in which content is addressed
Inquiry
Not teaching everything but allowing students discover
Assimilation
Describes how we combine new experiences with existing ideas
Accommodation
Changing the mental model when new evidence cannot be reconciled with prior understanding.
Discrepant Event
An event that piques curiosity and a desire to seek an explanation
Preconceptions
Ideas that are incomplete
Misconceptions
Ideas that are inaccurate
What is the 5E Instructional Strategies and how do you use it?
A strategy that helps provide useful inquiry-based learning experiences.
-Engage
-Explore
-Explain
-Elaborate
-Evaluate
What are the process skills?
-Predicting
-Identifying variables
-Designing experimental controls
What are the 3 domains
Cognitive, affective and psychomotor
Define constructivism
Learners construct knowledge rather than just taking it in
Define cognitivist
Students learn best from being pushed to think critically, learning through questions
What is NGSS? What are the crosscutting concepts and core ideas of it?
Next Generation Science Standards.
-Asking questions
-Developing and using model
-Planning and carrying out investigation
-Analyzing and interpreting data
-Using mathematics and computational thinking
-Constructing explanations
-Engaging in argument from evidence
-Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Define independent variable
The variable that causes the dependent variable to change (The variable that is changes in the experiment)
Define dependent variable
The variable that is observed, measured and changes based on the independent variable.
Define controlled variable
Things that could change but don’t they stay constant.
What are naive concepts
Conceptions that one is embedded with unwilling to accept new ways.
