Teacher Jam Chicago/Schedule/Science
science
describe an event, concept, experience
- use senses
- make predictions
- describe change
- cause and effect
guided inquiry
- ask questions based on prior knowledge or observations
- make inferences
- investigating hypotheses
- know and follow safety precautions
- independent vs dependent variables
following procedure
repeatability and other good practices
record and store data
- making charts, data tables
analyze and display results
- pattern recognition
- noted similarities and differences
- predicting trends
- drawing conclusions
- making generalizations
comparing experimental designs
common science topics
- life cycles
- classification (animal kingdoms)
- microscopic/macroscopic life
- structures (head, thorax, abdomen)
- predicting traits from parents
- biomes, different ecosystems, habitats
- matching organism needs to habitats
- animal adaptations
- relationships - predator/prey, parasite/host, symbiotic, consumer/producer
- food webs (population modeling kind of thing?)
- pedigrees
- feedback mechanisms
- competition (game of life?)
- simple circuits
- elements
- push/pull, magnetism. How objects interact
