Using the Science Core as a Tool

How to use the Core Standards as a guide for helping ELL Students

Example for 8th Grade Science Core Standards (ILO’s)

• Intended Learning Outcomes for Seventh and Eighth Grade Integrated Science

1.Use Science Process and Thinking Skills2. Manifest Scientific Attitudes and Interests 3. Demonstrate Understanding of Science

Concepts and Principles4. Communicate Effectively Using Science

Language and Reasoning

Example for 8th Grade Science Core Standards (ILO’s)

5. Demonstrate Awareness of Social and Historical Aspects of Science

• 6. Demonstrate Understanding of the Nature of Science

Example for 8th Grade Science Core Standards (ILO’s)

• Science language students should use:• generalize, conclude, hypothesis, theory,

variable, measure, evidence, data,• inference, infer, compare, predict, interpret,

analyze, relate, calculate,• observe, describe, classify, technology,

experiment, investigation,• tentative, assumption

Example for 8th Grade Science Core Standards (Benchmarks)

• All matter is made up of atoms that are far too small to see. Atoms are in perpetual motion and the

• more energy they contain the faster they move. Atoms combine to form molecules. Matter is made

• up of atoms and molecules that have measurable mass, volume, and density. Density is a measure of

• the compactness of matter. Density determines the way materials in a mixture are sorted. This

• property of matter results in the layering and structure of Earth’s atmosphere, water, crust, and

• interior.• Models are used to describe the structure of Earth.

Example for 8th Grade Science Core Standards (Benchmarks)

• Science language students should use:• atmosphere, atom, crust, density, diffusion,

gas, liquid, models, mass,• matter, molecule, particle, solid, temperature,

heat energy, volume

Example for 3rd Grade Science Core Standards (ILO’s)

• Intended Learning Outcomes for 3rd Grade Science

1. Use Science Process and Thinking Skills2. Manifest Scientific Attitudes and Interests 3. Understand Science Concepts and Principles4. Communicate Effectively Using Science

Language and Reasoning

Example for 3rd Grade Science Core Standards (Benchmarks)

• Earth orbits around the sun, and the moon orbits around Earth. Earth is spherical in shape and

• rotates on its axis to produce the night and day cycle. To people on Earth, this turning of the

• planet makes it appear as though the sun, moon, planets, and stars are moving across the sky once

• a day. However, this is only a perception as viewed from Earth.

Example for 3rd Grade Science Core Standards (Benchmarks)

• Science language students should use:• model, orbit, sphere, moon, axis, rotation,

revolution, appearance

Possible Translators

• http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

• http://translation2.paralink.com/

• These links will translate most words in many different languages.

Using TechnologyHelpful Websites

• http://www.pppst.com/science.html– Free Presentations in PowerPoint format

• http://www.edheads.org/ • http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ • http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7699/preview/