Science, concepts, processes, and instruction

Question 1

What studies concerned with the solid earth, earths water, and earths developing atmosphere

Answer 1

Earth science

Question 2

What are the three categories in earth science

Answer 2

Geologic, hydrologic, atmospheric

Question 3

What studies concerned with living organism and life processes?

Answer 3

Life science

Question 4

What are the three categories in life science?

Answer 4

Biology, ecology, anthropology

Question 5

What are the studies concerned with the inanimate/nonliving materials?

Answer 5

Physical science

Question 6

What are the three categories of fiscal science?

Answer 6

Physical, chemistry, astrology

Question 7

What are the five steps in the scientific method?

Answer 7

Observation
questioning
hypothesis
experimental
multiple data, collection, manipulation, and analysis

Question 8

What are the long-term changes that occur in all of nature?

Answer 8

Evolution

Question 9

What tools are used to measures volume?

Answer 9

Graduated cylinder, breakers, flasks

Question 10

What tools are used to measure weight or mass?

Answer 10

Balance or scale

Question 11

What tool transferred liquid and suction?

Answer 11

Pipette

Question 12

What do small items by magnifying the image?

Answer 12

Microscope

Question 13

What uses a flame to heat and sterilize things in a lab?

Answer 13

Bunsen burner

Question 14

What changes the role of teachers from someone who delivers content to one who develops activities through which students ideas and thinking or challenge in order to develop their own new knowledge and revise their world views

Answer 14

Constructivist pedagogy

Question 15

What are events that turn out differently than or in contradiction to an expected outcome?

Answer 15

Discrepant events

Question 16

What are the five ways to apply constructivist model to disc describe an event?

Answer 16

Engage
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Evaluate

Question 17

What is an activity where the students go through a hands-on experiment but they are instructed on exactly what to do in each step

Answer 17

Structured inquiry

Question 18

When students are responsible for making decision decisions in the process, but the teacher provides the question

Answer 18

Guided inquiry

Question 19

With as soon it has the opportunity to behave and think like a scientist to solve problems that are meaningful to them

Answer 19

Student initiated inquiry

Question 20

In a controlled experiment, what variable do the scientist control?

Answer 20

Independent

Question 21

In a scientific experiment, what variable measures the result?

Answer 21

Dependent

Question 22

In a controlled experiment, what is the standard?

Answer 22

Control group

Question 23

In a controlled experiment, what group is being observed against the standard?

Answer 23

Experimental group

Question 24

What is it called? A scientist is trying to generate a hypothesis about a phenomenon as opposed to testing one.

Answer 24

Descriptive studies

Question 25

What type of assessment checks for mastery of standards?

Answer 25

Summative assessments

Question 26

What are examples of a summative assessment?

Answer 26

Formal papers, rubric based final projects, standardized test

Question 27

What type of assessment provide information to teachers to see if students are comprehending the material or if they are struggling?

Answer 27

Formative assessments

Question 28

What is an example of a formative assessment?

Answer 28

Discussions, practice, problems, observations

Question 29

what is an example of a positive feedback system?

Answer 29

Contractions during labor and childbirth

Question 30

What resource would be most reliable when researching the latest scientific finding on climate change?

Answer 30

A peer reviewed scientific journal article from this year.

Question 31

If a student is observing a plant growing over a course of several weeks and recording the height of the plant each day, which of the following is the student doing during the gathering data step of scientific inquiry?

Answer 31

Measuring and recording the height of the plant each day.

Question 32

When using a microscope to view a sample, which piece of equipment adjusts the amount of light that reaches the sample?

Answer 32

The diaphragm