GLE Code | Discipline | Strand | Big Idea | Concept | Grade Level/Course | GLE |
SC/7IN/1/A/07/e | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Recognize that different kinds of questions suggest different kinds of scientific investigations (e.g., some involve observing and describing objects organisms, or events; some involve collecting specimens; some involve experiments; some involve making observations in nature; some involve discovery of new objects and phenomena; some involve making models)
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SC/7IN/1/A/07/f | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Acknowledge there is no fixed procedure called the scientific method , but some investigations involve systematic observations, carefully collected and relevant evidence, logical reasoning, and imagination in developing hypotheses and other explanations
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SC/7IN/1/A/07/c | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Design and conduct a valid experiment
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SC/7IN/1/A/07/d | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Evaluate the design of an experiment and make suggestions for reasonable improvements or extensions of an experiment
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SC/7IN/1/A/07/a | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Formulate testable questions and hypotheses
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SC/7IN/1/D/07/b | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes evaluation of explanations (hypotheses, laws, theories) in light of scientific principles (understandings) | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Analyze whether evidence (data) and scientific principles support proposed explanations (hypotheses, laws, theories)
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SC/7IN/1/E/07/a | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | The nature of science relies upon communication of results and justification of explanations | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Communicate the procedures and results of investigations and explanations through:
-oral presentations
-drawings and maps
-data tables (allowing for the recording and analysis of data relevant to the experiment, such as independent and dependent variables, --multiple trials, beginning and ending times or temperatures, derived quantities)
-graphs (bar, single line, pictograph)
-equations and writings
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SC/7IN/1/A/07/b | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes the ability of students to formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanation | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Recognize the importance of the independent variable, dependent variables, control of constants, and multiple trials to the design of a valid experiment
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SC/7IN/1/B/07/c | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry relies upon gathering evidence from qualitative and quantitative observations | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Use a variety of tools and equipment to gather data (e.g., microscopes, thermometers, analog and digital meters, computers, spring scales, balances, metric rulers, graduated cylinders, stopwatches)
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SC/7IN/1/B/07/b | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry relies upon gathering evidence from qualitative and quantitative observations | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Determine the appropriate tools and techniques to collect data
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SC/7IN/1/B/07/a | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry relies upon gathering evidence from qualitative and quantitative observations | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Make qualitative observations using the five senses
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SC/7IN/1/C/07/a | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Evidence is used to formulate explanations | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Use quantitative and qualitative data as support for reasonable explanations (conclusions)
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SC/7IN/1/D/07/a | Science | Scientific Inquiry | Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking | Scientific inquiry includes evaluation of explanations (hypotheses, laws, theories) in light of scientific principles (understandings) | Grade 7 | Scope and Sequence - All Units
Evaluate the reasonableness of an explanation (conclusion)
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