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GraveNet - Massachusetts Frameworks Connections
PreK-4
Science and Technology - Inquiry Strand
- Observe and describe familiar objects and events, identifying details, similarities and differences.
- Ask questions, both investigative and non investigative, about the objects and the events observed. Suggest ideas about "how" "why" and "what would happen if".
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation knowing what is to be compared or looked for.
- Extend observations using simple tools, e.g., hand lens, rulers, two-arm balance.
- Recognize and communicate simple patterns in data.
- Describe ideas about "how" "why" and "what would happen if".
- Interpret findings by relating one factor to another.
- Describe and communicate observations through discussions, drawings, simple graphs, and writing.
Grades 5-8
Science and Technology - Inquiry Strand
- Note and describe relevant details, patterns, and relationships.
- Differentiate between questions that can be answered through direct investigation and those that cannot.
- Apply personal experience and knowledge to make predictions.
- Apply multiple lines of inquiry to address and analyze a question, e.g., experimentation, trial and error, survey, interview, and secondary sources.
- Describe trends in data even when patterns are not exact.
- Analyze alternative explanations and procedures.
- Represent data and findings using tables, models, demonstrations and graphs.
- Communicate ideas and questions generated, and suggest improvements or alternatives to the experimental techniques used.
Grades 9-10
Science and Technology - Inquiry Strand
- Use a range of exploratory techniques, e.g., experiments, information/literature searches, data logging, research, and development, etc.
- Select appropriate methods of recording and interpreting data.
- Formulate further testable hypotheses based on the knowledge and understanding generated.
 More framework connections to be posted soon! 11/22/99
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