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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 6c and 6f.
Features that do not help student learning:
Text provides only limited coverage of standards 6b and 6e.
Ratings for Standards - Houghton Mifflin:
| 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. |
Moderate |
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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. |
In-Depth |
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| 6d Conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw conclusions about the relationships between predictions and results. |
Moderate |
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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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