1. Purpose, Syntax, and Techniques

2.  Focus attention  Establish relevance  Activate prior knowledge  Ask a good science question  Initiate inquiry

3.  A good story (narrative)  A mystery (intrigue)  A game (challenge/puzzle)  Something a little different (novelty)  Something a little flashy (vividness)  Something about them (relevance)  A chance to be successful (self-actualization)

4.  I was just thinking about…_________  And that leads to the question…__________  Change “thinking about” to other verb phrases (e.g., “listening to”, “playing with”, “wondering about”).  The question needs to be a science question…one that can be answered through inquiry activity, investigation, and/or experimentation.

5.  Activity – manipulating materials to learn about something.  Investigation – an activity that is focused on a question.  Experiment – an investigation that tests relationships, such as between variables.  Any of these can provide evidence for answering science questions.

6.  Relevant science question  Uses science processes  Relies on inductive approach

7.  Observation  Communication  Classification  Measurement  Inference  Prediction  Hypothesizing  Asking (science) questions  Designing investigations and/or experiments

8.  Evidence  Conclusion  There are broken bits of shells in the sand.  The sand is composed of broken bits of shells.  Conclusions  Evidence (Deduction)  Sand is made of broken shells.  Let’s find bits of shells in the sand.