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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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Teacher's Editions cite many activities as meeting these standards that do not address these standards and that do not address Grade 4 science content. |
Features that help student learning:
Text provides in-depth coverage of standard 6f.
Some of the pictures/illustrations help students understand procedures
Features that do not help student learning:
Text provides only limited coverage of standards 6b and 6e.
Many activities are described as "students design own experiments," but directions then tell students what to do or ask very leading questions that leave little room for student-directed learning.
Ratings for Standards - McGraw Hill:
| 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. |
Moderate |
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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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