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Concept Statement:
6 Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations.
Over-All Rating: Moderate coverage of this concept.
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Many of the activities in the text do not relate to Grade 4 science content standards. |
Features that help student learning:
Text provides in-depth coverage of standards 6a, 6d, and 6f.
The book often includes pictures that show the investigation procedures.
Features that do not help student learning:
Text provides only limited coverage of standards 6b and 6e.
Some written directions may require a demonstration for students to understand. Some of the pictures do not contribute to student understanding of the directions.
In many cases, the activity may cover part of a standard, but not the intent of the entire standard. (i.e. students make predictions but don't justify them, or make graphs from given data rather than from measurements.)
Many of the citations for "multiple trials" are really repeating steps with different variables, not a true re-trial.
Ratings for Standards - Harcourt:
| 6 Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. |
Moderate |
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| 6a Differentiate observation from inference (interpretation) and know scientists' explanations come partly from what they observe and partly from how they interpret their observations. |
In-Depth |
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| 6b Measure and estimate the weight, length, or volume of objects. |
Limited |
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| 6c Formulate and justify predictions based on cause-and-effect relationships. |
Moderate |
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| 6d Conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw conclusions about the relationships between predictions and results. |
In-Depth |
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| 6e Construct and interpret graphs from measurements. |
Limited |
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| 6f Follow a set of written instructions for a scientific investigation. |
In-Depth |
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