Standard+C+Science+Inquiry

// **Content Standard:** Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others. // // Students should experience science in a form that engages them in actively constructing ideas and explanations and enhances their opportunities to develop the skills of doing science. Such inquiry (problem solving) should include questioning, forming hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, reaching conclusions and evaluating results, and communicating procedures and findings to others. //
 * Post Standard C Resources here.**
 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s).**
 * // Rationale //**

[|Smart First Graders]
 * Christy Elmer**
 * Standard C:** Science Inquiry
 * Title:** Water Experiments
 * Grade Level:** 1st
 * Description:** This site is full of many different experiments to do with first graders. I focused on the water experiments that deal with water tension, float vs. sink, pockets of air, how to make something float and dissolving powders. They are relatively easy experiments to set up and look really fun to do.

Soleyvic Barahona
 * Standard C**: Science Inquiry
 * Title:** Scientific Method Unit
 * Link:** [|The Science Spot], http://sciencespot.net/Media/scimthdexps.pdf
 * Description:** This website includes lesson plans and activities students can do to understand the unit they are learning about. It has worksheets and problems students can do to analyze, investigate, and evaluate their findings. Students during this unit will analyze experiments to determine if they were done correctly or not.
 * Grade level**: 4-8th
 * Connection to the Standard:** According to Wisconsin Standard C.4.2. Students will use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations.

//Katie Grady// //**Standard C: Science Inquiry**// //**Title:**////Science Spot// //**Link:**////[|Mystery Cube Activity] ([])// //**Grade Level:**////6-8// //**Description:**////This activity gets students thinking like a scientist. They are to observe a cube from their seats without moving themselves or the cube. They need to communicate with other team members what they observe and their prior knowledge of cubes. Together with the data they collect, with make a prediction about what is on the bottom section of the cube.// //**Connection to the Standard:**////This activity works introduces the idea of questioning, investigating, concluding, explaining, which are all parts of the science inquiry process.//

//Mary Butler//
 * Title:** Experiments with temperature change: which color is the coolest under the sun?
 * Link:** []
 * Description and connection to standard:** This web site describes a lesson plan using simple materials which allows students to explore how various materials respond to temperature change. Students are encouraged to wonder about and discuss which clothes keep you coolest in the sun. Using thermometers, socks of different colors and materials, and a heat source such as the bulb of an overhead projector, the students make hypothesizes and design experiments to learn which colors and materials absorb the most heat. This investigation teaches students to plan investigations, to make observations and predictions and to offer explanations. It also uses simple equipment and collects data with which to draw conclusions.
 * Grade level:** This lesson is designed for students K-4.

Clare Dahl
 * Standard:** C Science Inquiry
 * Title:** FAQ Kids
 * Link to resource:** http://www.faqkids.com/science
 * Description:** “Where ‘Why’ turns into ‘WOW’” Gives short explanations to questions about many areas, including science. Kids can ask questions if they have not already been asked and answered. Could be used to brainstorm questions or start inquiry process
 * Range of appropriate grade levels.** All ages

Annie Partington This video of Sid the Science Kid shows how your stomach digests food. It shows an experiment and students coming to conclusions and drawing pictures after the experiment is done. It would be really good for young students because the video is a think aloud and allows to students to “learn” how to experiment and think through the experiment by collecting data, coming to conclusions and then communicating their findings. These videos would be good for PreK-1st grade.
 * Standard C**
 * Title:** Digestion Investigation
 * Link: [|Digestion Investigation]**
 * Description:**
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