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IDEAS AND INVENTIONS |
GOALS
The Ideas and Inventions Module consists
of four sequential investigations that promote student creativity
and inventiveness. Each investigation provides valuable science
content while introducing a conventional technique for revealing
the unseen.
FOSS EXPECTS STUDENTS TO
- Use techniques to see details about the world that would
otherwise be difficult to observe.
- Explore the techniques of chromatography, rubbing, carbon printing, and mirror
imagery.
- Solve problems using the techniques of chromatography and carbon printing.
- Record and compare patterns observed in leaf veins, fingerprints, and ink
pigments.
- Gain experience with texture and pattern in a variety of materials.
- Express individual and group creativity through open-ended discoveries and
inventions.
- Invent applications to extend the use of specific techniques.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with texture and patterns of materials and
exercise language in the context of science.
- Use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations
and build explanations: observing, communicating, comparing,
and organizing.
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