S&P+Communicate


 * Standard 1.0 Skills and Processes**: Students will demonstrate the thinking and acting inherent in the practice of science.
 * ~ Grade 8 ||
 * **Topic C.** Communicating Scientific Information ||
 * **1.** **//Develop explanations that explicitly link//** **//data//** **//from//** **//investigations//** **//conducted, selected readings and, when appropriate, contributions from historical discoveries.//** ||
 * **//a. Organize and present data in tables and graphs and identify relationships they reveal.//** ||
 * **//b. Interpret tables and graphs produced by others and describe in words the relationships they show.//** ||
 * **c.** Give examples of how scientific knowledge is subject to modification as new information challenges prevailing theories and as a new theory leads to looking at old observations in a new way. ||
 * //**d. Criticize the reasoning in arguments in which**//
 * //**Fact and opinion are intermingled**//
 * //**Conclusions do not follow logically from the evidence given.**//
 * //**Existence of**// //**control**// //**groups and the relationship to experimental groups is not made obvious.**//
 * //**Samples are too small, biased, or not representative.**// ||
 * //**e. Explain how different models can be used to represent the same thing. What kind of a model to use and how complex it should be depend on its purpose. Choosing a useful**// //**model**// //**is one of the instances in which intuition and creativity come into play in science, mathematics, and engineering**// ||
 * **f.** Participate in group discussions on scientific topics by restating or summarizing accurately what others have said, asking for clarification or elaboration, and expressing alternative positions. ||
 * **g.** Recognize that important contributions to the advancement of science, mathematics, and technology have been made by different kinds of people, in different cultures, at different times. ||