Investigation+and+Experimentation

List of Talking Points:
Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content these activities students develop questions and perform investigations.

Students will:

 * Develop a hypothesis.
 * Select and use appropriate tools and technology (including calculators, computers, balances, spring scales, microscopes, and binoculars) to perform tests, collect data, and display data.
 * Construct appropriate graphs from data and develop qualitative statements about the relationships between variables.
 * Communicate the steps and results from an investigation in written reports and oral presentations.
 * Recognize whether evidence is consistent with a proposed explanation.
 * Read a topographic map and a geologic map for evidence provided on the maps and construct and interpret a simple scale map.
 * Interpret events by sequence and time from natural phenomena (e.g., the relative ages of rocks and intrusions).
 * Identify changes in natural phenomena over time without manipulating the phenomena (e.g., a tree limb, a grove of trees, a stream, a hillslope).

Share lesson plans here:
Scientific Method: Student's are a question and then develop a lab based on "melters" or chemical used for melting ice during the Winter Season.