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SCIENCE AS INQUIRY SKILLS
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigation.
- Design and conduct a scientific experiment.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
SCIENCE STANDARDS, GRADES 6-8
Both the SFUSD standard number and the text of the relevant standard are
included. In addition, the specific part of the Desktop Star activity which
addresses the standard is indicated.
This lesson fulfills performance standards 18.1, 18.3 and 18.5.
Wtih minor changes in emphasis, it can also fulfill the Secondary
standards listed below.
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Content standards
- Primary
- 18: Astronomy (parts 1, 2, 3)
- Secondary
- 2: Physical Science: Energy Transformations (part 3)
- 3: Physical Science: Light (parts 1, 2)
- 9: Physical Science: Sound (part 3)
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Performance Standards
- Primary
- 18.1: Considering theories and evidence for the evolution of
the universe. (parts 1, 2, 3)
- 18.3: Designing a questionnaire about astronomical tools and asking an
astronomical expert to answer the questions (use mail, e-mail, or a
classroom visit). (part 3)
- 18.4: Using the Internet to research current astronomical information
and discoveries. (part 3)
- Secondary
- 2.2: Sequencing the series of energy transformations in a mechanical
device from kinetic to potential to kinetic energy. (part 1)
- 3.3 Using tools (lenses and prisms) to investigate the ways in which
light interacts with matter (e.g., transmission, including refraction;
absorption; scattering, including reflection). (part 2)
- 3.4 Investigating the range of wavelengths that can be seen by the
human eye. (parts 2, 3)
- 3.5 Observing and recording that differences of wavelength within
the range of visible light are perceived as differences in color.
(part 2)
- 9.4 Investigating the properties of sound such as pitch and volume.
(part 3)
LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS, GRADES 6-8
- Reading Content Standard #1:
- Reading Content Standard #2:
- 2.1.16 p. 13
- 2.2.1 p. 17
- 2.2.2 p. 17
- 2.3.12 p. 25 (note: student component should link to Glossary in CfPA
student page)
- Reading Content Standard #3:
- 3.1.1 p. 31
- 3.1.2 p. 31
- 3.1.4 p. 31
- 3.1.8 p. 33
- 3.1.9 p. 33
- Writing Content Standard #6:
- Oral Content Standard #7:
- 7.1.1 p. 99
- 7.2.2 p. 101
- 7.2.7 p. 103
All the above Language Arts Standards are addressed in the course of information gathering and reporting in
written form.
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