TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lindbergh School District

e. 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;
and some involve making models)
f. Acknowledge that there is no fixed procedure
called “the scientific method”, but that some
investigations involve systematic
observations, carefully collected, relevant
evidence, logical reasoning, and some
imagination in developing hypotheses and
other explanations
e. Students will brainstorm designs for
experiments of different types. They will
include observations, collections,
inventions and experiments. (1.1; 1.3;
2.3; 2.4; 2.6; 4.1; 4.6)
f. Students will plan and conduct a simple
experiment that is repeated and properly
controlled; then they will discuss and
respond thoughtfully to a variety of
conclusions and determine whether the
claims are logical arguments based on
results of the experiment. Students will
discuss how this meets the requirements
of a “scientific method.”(1.5; 1.7; 2.3;
3.4; 3.6; 3.7)
e. Students will design and complete an
independent science investigation that
includes repeated trials and is properly
controlled.
f. Students will design a series of systematic
observations that may reveal relationships
or patterns of behaviors of an animal
species under natural conditions.
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