Lesson 5: What Does Scientific Inquiry Look Like? Essential Questions: What do scientists do to investigate a question? How do they do it? How do they share their findings? Key vocabulary: abstract Do Now: Why should scientists share information about the investigations that they conduct? How have scientists changed the world or how we understand it by communicating about their work with others? After completing this this activity, I will be able to… NGSS Practice Level 1 Level 2: all of Level 3: all of level 2 Level 4: all of level 8 level 1 and… and… 3 and… Obtaining, List the Use the Use the information in Use the evaluating, and sections information in an introduction to information in a communicating of a an abstract to explain what I will need science article to information science describe a to find out and decide determine what I article. scientific before conducting my will need to do to investigation. investigation. complete a full investigation. Once you have completed the activity, circle the highest level that you achieved. 1. Choose an article to examine for this lesson. Title of the article: 2. Based on the title only, what do you think this article is about? 3. Skim the full article. As you do, make a list of the section headings. Sections of a science article:
Lesson 5: What Does Scientific Inquiry Look Like? Essential Questions: What do scientists do to investigate a question? How do they do it? How do they share their findings? Key vocabulary: abstract Do Now: Why should scientists share information about the investigations that they conduct? How have scientists changed the world or how we understand it by communicating about their work with others? After completing this this activity, I will be able to… NGSS Practice 8 Level 1 Level 2: all of level 1 and… Level 3: all of level 2 and… Level 4: all of level 3 and… Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information List the sections of a science article. Use the information in an abstract to describe a scientific investigation. Use the information in an introduction to explain what I will need to find out and decide before conducting my investigation. Use the information in a science article to determine what I will need to do to complete a full investigation. Once you have completed the activity, circle the highest level that you achieved. 1. Choose an article to examine for this lesson. Title of the article: 2. Based on the title only, what do you think this article is about? 3. Skim the full article. As you do, make a list of the section headings. Sections of a science article:
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