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6 Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations.
Over-All Rating: Limited coverage of this concept.
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The Teacher's Edition that we used cites many activities as meeting this standard that do not significantly address this standards. An earlier printing of this text includes additional erroneous correlations of the text with the standards. |
Features that help student learning:
Standard 6g is covered in-depth.
Features that do not help student learning:
Many of the activities do not help teach the science standards at this grade level. Students are often asked to hypothesize without enough information to guide the development of their questions. Directions for activities are not always complete or clear, and illustrations sometimes give the wrong impression about how to do the activity.
Ratings for Standards - McGraw Hill:
| 6 Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. |
Limited |
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| 6a Classify objects (e.g., rocks, plants, leaves) in accordance with appropriate criteria. |
Limited |
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| 6b Develop a testable question. |
Limited |
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| 6c Plan and conduct a simple investigation based on a student-developed question and write instructions that others can follow to carry out the procedure. |
Limited |
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| 6d Identify the dependent and controlled variables in an investigation. |
Limited |
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| 6e Identify a single independent variable in a scientific investigation and explain how this variable can be used to collect information to answer a question about the results of the experiment. |
Limited |
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| 6f Select appropriate tools (e.g., thermometers, meter sticks, balances, and graduated cylinders) and make quantitative observations. |
Limited |
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| 6g Record data by using appropriate graphic representations (including charts, graphs, and labeled diagrams) and make inferences based on those data. |
In-Depth |
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| 6h Draw conclusions from scientific evidence and indicate whether further information is needed to support a specific conclusion. |
Limited |
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| 6i Write a report of an investigation that includes conducting tests, collecting data or examining evidence, and drawing conclusions. |
Moderate |
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