Which is a specific process that should be taught in the elementary classroom?
Recording and organizing data using pictures, numbers, and words
How do elementary science teachers use inquiry to develop students knowledge of scientific ideas?
Teachers trust students to learn by providing time to think on their own
A 6th grade teacher wants students to understand the relationship between inquiry skills and the scientific process. They are to observe worms on dry and moist towels for 20 minutes, record their observations, and predict of worms prefer dry or moist conditions. How can the students achieve this objective?
Students can prove what will happen and predict outcomes when they observe a living worm
Which science learning activity describes the elaborate component of the 5E model?
Students take what was leaned and make real world connections to things in their everyday life
A 4th grade teacher wants the class to participate in an inquiry lesson using magnets the teacher wants to ensure students have opportunities to formulate and test hypothesis. Which strategy should the teacher use to achieve this objective?
Students should watch a short video on how magnets are used in daily life and then rank the most portent use of magnets
A teacher wants to maximize scientific inquiry during a unit on health care. To impact learning and processing skill building, the teacher accepts an offer from a medical doctor to work with the class. How can the teacher include multiple science process skills during instruction?
After the doctor demonstrates an experiment, have students work in groups to summarize the experiment, predict why it worked, interview the doctor about the experiment and listen to a follow up discussion ensuring their understanding.
A 3rd grade teacher wants the students to make meaningful, grade-appropriate measurement. Which activity supports this objective?
Measuring objects on the playground in inches, feet, and yards using a yard stick.
A kindergarten teacher is introducing the concepts of sorting and classification to the students. How can the teacher implement a logical sequence of activities to begin teaching this skill?
By providing a worksheet to match objects, then having a classmate check the worksheet for accuracy
A teacher has prepared a general introduction lesson in science process skills using measurement tools. The teacher wants to include measurement activities to enhance the evaluation selection. How can the teacher accomplish this goal?
By using data from measurement of a variety of objects.
Why is skepticism valued in science?
It encourages predictions and hypothesis testing to promote academic discourse
The objectives for a 3rd grade lesson is to promote scientific inquiry prior to beginning the investigation; the teacher will incorporate nonfiction literature about weathering into the reading lesson. After activating students prior knowledge, the teacher will pace students in groups of 4. Each group will be provided with materials, including 2 small topless milk/juice cartons, moist soil, plaster of Paris, a stick, bean seed, and jar of water,ruler, paper, and pencils. Students will begin the experiment and continue investigating over several days to determine how plants are involved in the weathering of rocks. Students will describe the group experiment on their science journals. How does this lesson describe the relationships of inquiry to science education?
Students build upon background knowledge by typing new scientific concepts previously learned material
Which science inquiry activity includes scaffolding?
The teacher provides a science experiment with set procedures for all students to follow
A 5th grade teacher has provided the students with a discovery science lesson. The students worked in groups to create landforms. After the experiment, the teacher decided to have each group think-pair-share to discuss the lesson. How can the teacher incorporate discovery methods into this science theme?
By providing opportunities to contribute to promote further questioning and thinking.
A teacher has decided to use portfolios in a science class. Students will keep a detailed record of their expectations and conclusions each day. At the end of experiment, the teacher will ask students to determine and record what they would do with the accumulated evidence. How does this portfolio activity allow students to further modify/affirm scientific ideas from their investigations?
Portfolios allow students to reflect on their predictions.
To help students learn that problems are based on many factors and may have more than one solution, a 5th grade science teacher has students review data about a recent water shortage in the community. Which learning activity can students perform to achieve this objective?
Research different aspects of the issue and create a list of ways to addresses shortage.
When is it important for science teachers to mod the use of effective eye protection?
When describing the activity prior to student engagement
Which guideline is recommended for proper handling and disposal of substances such as molds?
Grow mold in a soil sample to avoid handling by students
A 4th grade teacher plans a lab that requires students to use beakers for measuring vinegar. She has glass and plastic beakers at her disposal. What safety procedure should she ensure that students follow?
Use only plastic beakers
During a 4th grade science lab, a glass beaker breaks and a student cuts his finger and gets blood on the table. Which safety procedure should the teacher observe first?
The teacher should put on disposable gloves and then attend to the student
What is a common misconception in science?
The egg yolk s the undeveloped embryo.
Why is it important for students to make connections to prior learning before they are introduced to new scientific concepts?
It allows students the opportunity to expose existing ideas, explore possibilities and organize their thinking in the new concept.
A 3rd grade teacher is planning a lesson that uses a game to help the students scientifically communicate the properties of a life stage of a chick. The game begins with the description, "I am pink, hunched over and my eyes are closed." The teacher wants to model and build scientific language in the students. Which can narrative helps the teacher achieve this goal?
Students try to identify the stage. The child who identifies the growth period first gets to be the new describer. After each students identification the teacher cycles through an explanation phase with questions such as "what did she say that helped you figure out this stage? What else would be helpful to say? We're there similarities in stages of the various animals? We're there differences?
A science teacher is teaching a lesson on humidity several students in the class have limited English speaking skills and vocabulary acquisition is difficult for them. Which method should the teacher use to help these students better understand the content?
Plan grouping scenarios where these students work with bilingual partners
Students are learning about inclined planes. The teacher uses a standard on designing inquiry. Standard: the position and motion of objects can be changed by pushing/pulling. The size of change is related to the strengthen of the push/pull. Which instructional strategy would be appropriate to teach this standard?
Ensuring that students record data in multiple places during an experiment with inclined planes
An elementary teacher has a large group of ELLs in her class. Which strategy should the teacher use during instruction to effectively work with this group of students?
Should provide multi sensory,hands-on activities utilizing scientific inquiry
A teacher is planning a life science unit in plants and wants to incorporate project based learning to help the student understand different factors that affect plant growth. Which example accomplishes this goal?
Students record plants growth after observing in the school yard
A teacher is beginning a unit on weather with 6th graders. The teacher asks them to make observations on weather in the area for 3 days. They are told they can use any instruments they have at home, including news report or Internet. The teacher wants the students to connect observations from home to weather patterns in neighboring states. Which strategy can the teacher use to help students explain this phenomenon?
Look at weather maps for the area and surrounding states from the same 3 days last year to predict what the weather will be like over the next 3 days.
A teacher creates a science unit for a 2nd grade class on properties of a parachute they create with various supplies in class. How should the teacher help the students develop and test hypotheses about their parachute?
By providing students with one variable to test at a time.
A science teacher is teaching about the moon and its phases. The teacher gives the students vanilla wafer cookies and asks them to take bites out of the cookies to make them look like the moon at different times they have seen it. How does this lesson engage students?
By providing a hands on inquiry activity that includes a visual representation
A 5th grade teacher is beginning a unit on skeletal system. The teacher wants to design a learning activity that supports dialogue about scientific concepts among students. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
Students can be placed in groups beach group can be given a model of the skeletal system. Students can draw and label the major bones such as the ulna, radius, phalanges, and clavicle.
A 2nd grade teacher is beginning a lesson on light and color spectrum. The teacher wants to encourage scientific inquiry by planning a laboratory based lesson that uses specified materials. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
Have students conduct an experiment on the playground using a cake pan, a bottle of water, a mirror, and white piece of paper to make predictions about the colors in sunlight
How should differences in culture be approached to increase student participation and learning in science?
Differences should be appreciated
A 5th grade teacher has a class of students at carries levels. A small group of students generally work at a 3rd grade level, a majority of the students work above grade level. How can the teacher differentiate science instruction for students working above grade level?
By allowing students to work in groups with lower level students
A teacher has limited English proficiency whose knowledge on science topics in inadequate. The teacher wants to provide various strategies for these students to encourage science exploration and cultural building. Which strategy helps the teacher achieve this goal?
Using a bag and tag word wall to introduce vocabulary experience
A teacher plans a science experiment that involves movement around classroom. Students are placed in small groups and will move to each station upon direction from teacher. One student uses a wheelchair and several students to participate equally in science learning?
Designing stations that foster individual problem solving and thinking skills
Students in a science class come from diverse cultural backgrounds and some students are reluctant to participate. The teacher wants to incorporate instructional strategies that actively engage members of the class. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
The teacher can use audio visual materials that portray diversity and include scientific contributions from a variety of cultures
A 6th grade teacher wants to keep the gifted students on task during science lessons. They tend to get bored and cause disruptions because they are not fully engaged. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
Provide opportunities for open ended investigations
A 5th grade teacher with ELL wants to discuss plants native to the students countries. The teacher wants to promote science talk, support science vocabulary and help students use background knowledge to interest them in the subject. Which two strategies can the teacher use to assist these students?
-conduct a think pair share activity in which students discuss what their favorite plant is, where it usually grows and how plants relate to science.
-have the class make a bag and tag picture word wall that depict the plants, along with a description using vocabulary learned
A 3rd grade teacher has several students in the class who have mild to moderate learning disabilities. The teacher is about to begin a lesson on force and motion and would like to create a lesson plan that integrates multiple strategies for engaging exceptional learners in the science class. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
The teacher can have students with special needs placed beside students who are gifted to receive extra assistance as needed. The teacher can arrange for pilots to come to class and talk about motion and force
While studying the moon, it is important that students understand the phases and their order. To achieve this goal, the teacher is having students draw a diagram and write a description of exhibition of the stages of the moon. How does this assessment assure students are learning the phases?
Gives students a creative outlet to demonstrate their learning
At the end of a unit on plants and seeds a 3rd grade teacher gives an end of chapter test but isn't happy with the results because 5 of he 25 students failed. She realizes that the moon problem seems to be interpreting graphs and charts on the growth of the plants. What does the teacher need to do to refine her teaching and make sure this isn't an issue in future classes?
Use graphs and charts on a daily basis with students
A 4th grade teacher wants her students to practice the inquiry method while learning about weather patterns. Students will gather data by examining digital weather reports from different areas of the country. Which assessment is appropriate when this instructional method is used?
Group discussion on weather they've observed.
A new 4th grade teacher wants to select assessment that's allow for students participation and self assessment during a science unit in mammals. Which type of assessment should this teacher use?
Portfolio
After a teacher utilized direct instruction while teaching about the seasons, students performed poorly in the chapter test. Half of the class scored at or below 50%. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction to support students science learning. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
By incorporating graphic organizers to activate students prior knowledge and reciprocal teaching to engage students in leaning.
A 4th grade teacher is beginning a unit on series and parallel circuits using inquiry. The teacher will question students after group activities to enhance students understanding. Students will draw a picture of open and closed circuits and will then meet students individually to discuss their reflections. Why are the teachers selected strategies suitable to assess student learning?
Because students are showing knowledge using different modalities
A school doesn't allow live animals in the building. What is another way for students to observe and collect data?
Accessing a website that has a mounted camera that shows animals in their home
A 3rd grade teacher has a new class with an unusual number of children who are of average intelligence but have limited English proficiency. The teacher decided to use hands on activities rather than virtual investigation to teach science. Why is this an appropriate choice of this classroom of students?
Hands on specific investigations allow students to demonstrate their knowledge using concrete materials
A teacher is completing a unit on the earths movement to the sun and moon. She is unsure if students can visualize the movement patterns and decides to have them research the topic further using multimedia. Which instructional strategy would meet this goal?
Have students search for pictures of the earth, moon, and sun using an Internet search engine and then create models that can be moved
A teacher wants to teach a class about genetically altered foods. The teacher wants to facilitate students use of digital technology to communicate about science. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
Have students listen to a podcast about the economic advantages of homegrown crops.
A 5th grade teacher is presenting a unit about endangered species. The teacher would like to include the use of technology in the next lesson to build additional understanding about the science concepts. How could the teacher meet this goal?
By having students take a virtual tour of an endangered species habitat
A 6th grade class is studying water pollution but doesn't have transportation to a local water treatment plant. The teacher would like to provide the same information using a digital resource. How could the teacher meet this goal?
Obtain a virtual tour of a water treatment plant through a cable resource and then show the presentation in the classroom
What is a key component of the national science education standards?
Select science content that will meet abilities and experience of students.
Who sets the standards for science education in elementary schools?
Individual states
A 4th grade teacher wants to ensure students understand the life cycle process of plants. The teacher decides to incorporate the science-as-inquiry standard from the national education science standards. How can the teacher achieve the specified learning outcomes?
Have student plant a radish in clear glass surrounded by moist paper towels and record their observations daily
According the national science education teaching standards (NSES) standard A, teachers should use assessment strategies that support the developmental of students understanding and nurture a community of science learners. A 6th grade teacher wants to follow this standard in her unit concerning plants. The teacher decides to have students work in groups to design. Low stakes, authentic assessment procedure. Then the students use the assessment to provide peer feedback. How does this lesson align to the standard?
It provides opportunities for students to be more involved in the learning process opportunities for peer collaboration and information sharing
How can a teacher integrate a developmentally appropriate unit on electricity into an art lesson in the 3rd grade?
Have students use various pieces of electric wire to create a 3D collage
Which activity on animal habitats promotes thinking skills?
Having students write a detailed description about an animal habitat so that other students can guess the animal that lives there
A 4th grade teacher is beginning a unit on plants. The teacher wants students to use academic language associated with the unit and decides to incorporate Vee maps into the lesson. How does this activity support the use of academic language?
Allows students to connect prior knowledge with new knowledge and vocabulary
A 4th grade teacher beginning a unit on plants. The teacher wants to incorporate fine arts and a geography component into the unit. How can the teacher achieve this objective?
Can read about crops grown in different parts of the country and then Create plant books that depict crops native to four geographic regions
How can 2nd grade teacher extend a unit on appropriate care of animals beyond the classroom?
Take a checklist home and report of their family or friend is taking proper care of their families
A science teacher wants to increase ELL recognition of science everyday life. Which strategy can the teacher use to activate this objective?
Record data in a weather journal for one month
During a lesson on heat loss and gain, a teacher asks students if they prefer drinks to have ice. Students receive cups of ice and choose a drink, and the teacher asks students if their drink will start warming up as the ice begins to melt. Students then test the temperature of their dink multiple times as the ice melts. How does this activity relate to students issue from their everyday life?
Understand how a change of stake results on the absorption or release of heat energy
