Obtain information using Obtain and combine Gather, read, and Gather, read, and evaluate various texts, text information from books synthesize information scientific and/or technical features (e.g., headings, and/or other reliable from multiple information from multiple tables of contents, media to explain appropriate sources and authoritative sources, glossaries, electronic phenomena or solutions assess the credibility, assessing the evidence and menus, icons), and other to a design problem. accuracy, and possible usefulness of each source. media that will be useful bias of each publication Evaluate the validity and in answering a scientific and set of methods used, reliability of and/or question and/or and describe how they synthesize multiple claims, supporting a scientific are supported or not methods, and/or designs claim. supported by evidence. that appear in scientific Evaluate data, and technical texts or hypotheses, and/or media reports, verifying conclusions in scientific the data when possible. and technical texts in light of competing information or accounts. Communicate Communicate scientific Communicate scientific Communicate scientific information or design and/or technical and/or technical and/or technical ideas and/or solutions information orally information (e.g., about a information or ideas (e.g., with others in oral and/or in written proposed object, tool, about phenomena and/or and/or written forms formats, including process, system) in the process of using models, drawings, various forms of media writing and/or through development and the writing, or numbers that as well as tables, oral presentations. design and performance of provide detail about diagrams, and charts. a proposed process or scientific ideas, practices, system) in multiple and/or design ideas. formats (including orally, graphically, textually, and mathematically).
Obtain information using various texts, text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons), and other media that will be useful in answering a scientific question and/or supporting a scientific claim. Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain phenomena or solutions to a design problem. Gather, read, and synthesize information from multiple appropriate sources and assess the credibility, accuracy, and possible bias of each publication and set of methods used, and describe how they are supported or not supported by evidence. Evaluate data, hypotheses, and/or conclusions in scientific and technical texts in light of competing information or accounts. Gather, read, and evaluate scientific and/or technical information from multiple authoritative sources, assessing the evidence and usefulness of each source. Evaluate the validity and reliability of and/or synthesize multiple claims, methods, and/or designs that appear in scientific and technical texts or media reports, verifying the data when possible. Communicate information or design ideas and/or solutions with others in oral and/or written forms using models, drawings, writing, or numbers that provide detail about scientific ideas, practices, and/or design ideas. Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats, including various forms of media as well as tables, diagrams, and charts. Communicate scientific and/or technical information (e.g., about a proposed object, tool, process, system) in writing and/or through oral presentations. Communicate scientific and/or technical information or ideas (e.g., about phenomena and/or the process of development and the design and performance of a proposed process or system) in multiple formats (including orally, graphically, textually, and mathematically).