CONNECTED, 2 2015, Have You Checked? Operation Duck Pond by Andrew Gunn Overview This article describes how Nathan Burkepile, a scientist with Fish and Game New Zealand, engages the help of citizen scientists for his research into what makes a pond a good breeding habitat for ducks. A Google Slides version of this article is available at . Science capability: Critique evidence Text characteristics Science knowledge is trial on data derived from direct Clearly structured text with headings that signal the information in each section and help the reader to or indirect observations of the natural physical world. navigate the text. An inference is a conclusion drawn from those Many subject-specific words with their meanings observations; it is the meaning you make from the explained in the running text and in the glossary. observations. Understanding the difference between an Breakout text to provide supplementary observation and an inference is an important step towards information. being scientifically literate. Images and photographs with captions that clarify ready, willing, and able to critique evidence is also an the text and require some interpretation. important step towards being scientifically literate. Students must be able to assess the quality and reliability of both the observations (data) and the inferences made from those observations. In order to know what sorts of questions to ask to evaluate the trustworthiness of data, students need both methodological knowledge (how data is generated and collected) and statistical knowledge (how data is collated and analysed). For more information about the evidence” science “Critique capability, go to Curriculum context SCIENCE NATURE OF SCIENCE: LIVING WORLD: Ecology Key Nature of Science ideas Understanding about Scientists: Achievement objective science evaluate the trustworthiness of data L2: Students will recognise that Achievement objective by asking questions investigations living things are suited to their L2: Students will appreciate carried out by others particular habitat. that scientists ask questions undertake more than one to our world that lead to LIVING WORLD: Evolution provide sufficient evidence to support a investigations and that theory Achievement objective is important replicate investigations to critique L2: Students will recognise that because there may be more the evidence or data provided by there are lots of different living than one explanation. scientists things in the world and that they can be grouped in different ways. check that there are enough samples to reliably establish a conclusion or theory
CONNECTED, 2 2015, Have You Checked? Operation Duck Pond by Andrew Gunn Overview This article describes how Nathan Burkepile, a scientist with Fish and Game New Zealand, engages the help of citizen scientists for his research into what makes a pond a good breeding habitat for ducks. A Google Slides version of this article is available at . Science capability: Critique evidence Text characteristics Science knowledge is on data derived from direct or indirect observations of the natural physical world. An inference is a conclusion drawn from those observations; it is the meaning you make from the observations. Understanding the difference between an observation and an inference is an important step towards being scientifically literate. ready, willing, and able to critique evidence is also an important step towards being scientifically literate. Students must be able to assess the quality and reliability of both the observations (data) and the inferences made from those observations. In order to know what sorts of questions to ask to evaluate the trustworthiness of data, students need both methodological knowledge (how data is generated and collected) and statistical knowledge (how data is collated and analysed). For more information about the “Critique evidence” science capability, go to Clearly structured text with headings that signal the information in each section and help the reader to navigate the text. Many subject-specific words with their meanings explained in the running text and in the glossary. Breakout text to provide supplementary information. Images and photographs with captions that clarify the text and require some interpretation. Curriculum context SCIENCE NATURE OF SCIENCE: Understanding about science Achievement objective L2: Students will appreciate that scientists ask questions our world that lead to investigations and that is important because there may be more than one explanation. LIVING WORLD: Ecology Achievement objective L2: Students will recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat. LIVING WORLD: Evolution Achievement objective L2: Students will recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they can be grouped in different ways. Key Nature of Science ideas Scientists: evaluate the trustworthiness of data by asking questions investigations carried out by others undertake more than one trial to provide sufficient evidence to support a theory replicate investigations to critique the evidence or data provided by scientists check that there are enough samples to reliably establish a conclusion or theory
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