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BOWA Science Skills Matrix

Foundation SkillsObserving K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will carefullyexamine and describevarious living and non-living specimens and/orevents using all theirsenses.

Make simple qualitativeand quantitativeobservations

Make detailedqualitative andquantitativeobservations

Make complexqualitative andquantitativeobservations withprecision and detail

Recor ing K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will record ormake written notesdescribing what theyhave observed.

iscuss! draw! and/orfill in provided datatables

Maintain notebooks!complete activity and/orlab sheets! completeand/or design datatables

esign and completecomplex data tables!use detailed descriptors

!o"#aring K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will compareand contrast ob"ectsand/or events.

#ompare and contrastsimple! concretecharacteristics $color!si%e! ob"ects&

#ompare and contrastcomplex concretecharacteristics. 'eginto compare an contrastand abstractcharacteristics$concepts and ideas&.

#ompare and contrastmostly abstractcharacteristics $modelsand theories&

!lassi$%ing K-3 4-6 7 & 8Students will classifyob"ects and/or eventsaccording to theirproperties.

(ecogni%e or sort bysimple attributes

#lassify using multipleattributes

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sing Mat'e"atics K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Student will identifysets and theirmembers! order! count!use mathematicaloperations! findaverages! usedecimals! use powersof ten! and constructcharts and graphs.

#ount! estimate! findpatterns! define sets!construct charts!graphs $bar andpictographs&! and )enndiagrams

*rder! average! usedecimals! constructgraphs $line! bar andcircle&

+se basic statisticaltools $best-fit curves!box-and-whisker plots&!algebra formulas!percentages! andproportions

Meas(ring)*sti"ating K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will identifyand order lengths! andmeasure time!distance! area! volume!weight! temperature!force and speed.Students will estimatevarious measurements.

*rder lengths andquantities

+se metrics

+se of simplemeasuring devices

,xpand use of metricsand measuring devices

Select appropriatemeasuring devices

+se! with a higherdegree of precision!more sophisticatedmeasuring devices

sing S#ace ) +i"eRelations'i#s

K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will identifysi%e! movement! andposition. Students willmeasure time andchanges in position.

+se calendar tomeasure time$seasons! months!days&

(ecogni%e dimensions andsymmetry

Make and use moresophisticated time anddistancemeasurements

#ompute speed

nterpret therelationship betweendistance and time andbetween speed andtime

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Making Mo els K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will visuali%eor constructrepresentations ofob"ects! events or ideasto clarify explanations!demonstraterelationship or predictevents.

Make physical modelsto understand thestructure and functionof ob"ets or systems

Make physical modelsto understand aconcept orphenomenon

Make a model to solvea problem

Make mental models tounderstand an abstractconcept

,re icting K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will forecastoutcomes when givencertain circumstances.Students will use datato make predictions.

+se prior knowledge tomake predictions

+se the relationshipbetween two factors tomake predictions

+se the relationshipbetween two variablesto make a prediction

+se experimental datato make the prediction

n$erring K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will developpossible explanationsregarding the causes ofevents which may nothave been observeddirectly.

/0 istinguish betweenobservation andinference Make inferences usingconcrete information

Make inferences usingabstract ideas

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A##l%ing t'eScienti$ic Met'o

K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will conductexperiments using thescientific method. 0spart of this process!students will1 define theproblem! formulate ahypothesis! design andcarry out a procedure!control variables!organi%e data! interpretdata! and drawconclusions.

2erform a simpleinvestigation

2erform a simpleexperiment

3ake a systematicapproach toexperimentally solve aproblem

.e$ining t'e ,roble" K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will identifyand formulate theproblem in a mannerthat allows it to betested.

/0 (ecogni%e the problemwith teacher assistance

efine a testableproblem independently

dentify theindependent anddependant variables

/or"(lating0%#ot'eses

K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will make anunproved! temporaryexplanation orsupposition that isbased on known facts.

/0 4rite a hypothesis for asimple teacher-providedproblem/question

4rite a hypothesis for acomplex student-formulatedproblem/question

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.esigning a,roce (re

K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will develop aseries of clearly statedreplicable steps thattest the validity of the

/0 4rite a simpleprocedure with teacherassistance

4rite a clear replicableprocedure that tests thevalidity of thehypothesis! controls

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hypothesis. variables! and reflectsthe problems statement

!ontrolling 1ariables K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will controlvariables so that theresults observed arecaused by the givenfactor$s& being testedand not by someextraneous factor$s&.

/0 (ecogni%e what avariable is

#ontrol given variables

dentify and controlvariables

Organi2ing .ata K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will organi%edata in an appropriateformat.

#reate pictographs! bargraphs! and charts toorgani%e data

Select the mostappropriate method fororgani%ing andpresenting data

#reate more advancedgraphs and charts

*rgani%e data basedon dependent andindependent variables

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nter#reting .ata K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will analy%edata and assess itsvalidity and precision.

Find patterns Find more complexpatterns

(ecogni%e the absenceof patterns

,valuate the validityand precision of data

.ra ing !oncl(sions K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Student will use data toevaluate the validity ofthe hypothesis and/oranswer the problemstatement.

raw simpleconclusions

raw more detailedconclusions citingevidence

raw in depthconclusions citing data

,valuate validity of thedata

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Science 3oolkit Skillssing +ec'nolog% K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will usetechnology as a tool forresearch6 as a meansof data collection!organi%ation! andanalysis6 as well as a

+se internet to collectinformation from givensites with teacherassistance

+se e-mail

+se computer toorgani%e and presentdata in tables

+se computer to graphand chart

+se computerapplications to presentdata and results

+se computers!graphing calculators

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means forcommunication of dataand results.

+se internet to collectinformation from givensites with teachersupervision

and probes to collect!manipulate! analy%edata

+se internet to collectinformation from abroad range of siteswith teachersupervision

n erstan ing annter#reting Scienti$iciterat(re

K-3 4-6 7 & 8

Students will extract theconcepts! ideas! andfacts from scientificliterature! analy%e theinformation! makeinferences! drawconclusions andevaluate the validity ofthe material presented.

7earn and use newvocabulary

dentify importantscientific ideas andconcepts from a varietyof sources

*utline and summari%escientific articles

(elate the sciencecontent to classroomlearning

(ecogni%e and formquestions about what isread

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