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Unit 1: Investigating Questions

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Lesson 1: How Do Scientists Investigate Questions?

What Do Scientists Do -- 1-page reading about "being" a scientist, with questions. Would be interesting to have them draw a scientist before and after reading this.

ScienceJournalRubric.pdf -- Rubric for grading a student's science journal entries.

ScienceJournalSelfEvaluation.pdf -- Student self-evaluation of science journal entries.

ScienceLabGroupSelfEvaluation.pdf -- Student self-evaluation of how well their group worked together.

Form for designing an independent investigation.

Guidelines for designing an independent investigation

Rubric for evaluating an investigation.

Flow chart showing the steps in the scientific method.

Rap of steps in the scientific method

 

Lesson 2: How Can You Use Models?

 

Lesson 3: How Do Scientists Use Tools?

 

Lesson 4: How Can You Measure Length?

 

Lesson 5: How Do Scientists Record Data?

 

Lesson 6: How Do Your Results Compare?

 

Unit 1 Benchmark Review