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VARIABLES |
GOALS
Some of the most important scientific concepts students learn
are the result of their ability to see relationships between
objects and events. Relationships always involve interactions,
dependencies, and cause and effect. The Variables
Module has four investigations that help students
discover relationships through controlled experimentation.
Students will fling, float, fly, and flip objects as they
discover relationships in each investigation.
FOSS EXPECTS STUDENTS TO
- Gain experience with the concept of variable.
- Gain experience with the concept of system.
- Design and conduct controlled experiments.
- Construct materials that will be used in the investigations.
- Acquire some understanding of the behavior of pendulums.
- Gain experience with buoyancy.
- Use data to make predictions.
- Apply mathematics in the context of science.
- Record and graph data concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to discover
relationships.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with controlled experimentation.
- Use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations
and build explanations: observing, communicating, comparing,
organizing, and relating.
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