9-12 Science Intended Learning Outcomes
9-12 Science ILO Core Alignment Summary Table
1. Use Science Processes and Thinking Skills
a) Observe objects, events and patterns and record both qualitative and quantitative information.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
b) Use comparisons to help understand observations and phenomena.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
c) Evaluate, sort, and sequence data according to given criteria.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
d) Select and use appropriate technological instruments to collect and analyze data.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
e) Plan and conduct experiments where the students may perform certain tasks. (Tasks can be found here on page 30.)
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
- Biodiversity Debate
f) Distinguish between factual statements and inferences.
- What's in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
- Biodiversity Debate
g) Develop and use classification systems.
h) Construct models, simulations and metaphors to describe and explain natural phenomena.
i) Use mathematics as a precise method for showing relationships.
- Where's the Water?
- What's in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
- Nitrogen Cycle
j) Form alternative hypotheses to explain a problem.
- What's in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
- Water Management
2. Manifest Scientific Attitudes and Interests
a) Voluntarily read and study book and other materials about science.
b) Raise questions about objects, events, and processes that can be answered through scientific investigation.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- That's Predictable
- Biodiversity Debate
c) Maintain an open and questioning mind toward new ideas and alternative points of view.
d) Accept responsibility for actively helping to resolve social, ethical and ecological problems related to science and technology.
e) Evaluate scientifically related claims against available evidence.
f) Reject pseudoscience as a source of scientific knowledge.
3. Demonstrate Understanding of Science Concepts, Principles and Systems
a) Know and explain science information specified for the subject being studied.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- Water Management
- Biodiversity Debate
b) No Correlations
c) Apply principles and concepts of science to explain various phenomena.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
- Biodiversity Debate
d) Solve problems by applying science principles and procedures.
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
4. Communicate Effectively Using Science Language and Reasoning
a) Provide relevant data to support their inferences and conclusions.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
b) Use precise scientific language in oral and written communication.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
c) Use proper English in oral and written reports.
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
d) Use reference sources to obtain information and site the sources.
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Aquatic Invasion!
- That's Predictable
- Water Management
e) Use mathematical language and reasoning to communicate information.
- Where's the Water?
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- Nitrogen Cycle
- When Things Heat Up
- Water Management
5. Demonstrate Awareness of Social and Historical Aspects of Science
a) Cite examples of how science affects human life.
b) Give instances of how technological advances have influenced the progress of science and how science has influenced advances in technology.
c) Understand the cumulative nature of scientific knowledge.
d) No Correlations
6. Demonstrate Understanding of the Nature of Science
a) Science is a way of knowing that is used by many people, not just scientists.
b) Understand that science investigations use a variety of methods and do not always use the same set of procedures; understand that there is not just one "scientific method".
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
- Water Management
c) Science findings are based upon evidence.
- What's in the Water?
- Who lives in the Water?
- Missing Macroinvertebrates
- Wetland vs Stream Macros
- Riparian Review
- When Things Heat Up
- Water Management
d) Understand that science conclusions are tentative and therefore never final. Understandings based upon these conclusions are subject to revision in the light of new evidence.
e) Understand that scientific conclusions are based on the assumption that natural laws operate today as they did in the past and that they will continue to do so in the future.
f) No Correlations
g) Understand that various disciplines of science are interrelated and share common rules of evidence to explain phenomena in the natural world.
h) Understand that scientific inquiry is characterized by a common set of values that include logical thinking, precision, open-mindedness, objectivity, skepticism, replicability of results and honest and ethical report of findings. These values function as criteria in distinguishing between science and non-science.
i) Understand that science and technology may raise ethical issues for which science, by itself, does not provide solutions.