1. Week 1-2 Standards: Scaled Goals:
SC8N15 Analyze the methods used to develop a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science.
SC8N22 Discuss what characterizes science and its methods.
SC8N13 Use phrases such as "results support" or "fail to support" in science, understanding that science does not offer conclusive 'proof' of a knowledge claim.
Scaled Goals:
Student Will Be Able to:
1.0 –Recall and recognize some terminology from 6th and 7th grade
2.0 – Identify scientific processes, learn to make detailed observations and identify variables from a testable hypothesis and explain how hypothesis are valuable.
3.0 – Analyze and evaluate scientific experiments and claims, predict and defend conclusions while using vital vocabulary.
4.0 – Critique and defend elements of a scientific investigation using evidence and create/recommend future scientific investigations.
SC8N21 Distinguish between scientific and pseudoscientific ideas.
SC8N42 Explain how political, social, and economic concerns can affect science, and vice versa.
SC8N41 Explain that science is one of the processes that can be used to inform decision making at the community, state, national, and international levels.
SC8N32 Explain why theories may be modified but are rarely discarded.
SC8N31 Select models useful in relating the results of their own investigations.
SC8N14 Explain how hypotheses are valuable if they lead to further investigations, even if they turn out not to be supported by the data
SC8N16 Understand that scientific investigations involve the collection of relevant empirical evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses, predictions, explanations and models to make sense of the collected evidence.