Science Knowledge base:
The purpose of these pages is to document a knowledge base of information for science literacy. Information organized as concepts, misconceptions, outcomes, and standards to develop a conceptual framework of science literacy for critical thinking. This information is organized in five dimensions:
- Habits of mind, attitudes, values, & dispositions to attain positive scientific practices
- Inquiry practices
- Processes & process skills
- Content areas: Physical, Life, Earth & space
- Perspectives: Engineering & technology, personal & social, history of science, nature of science
Inquiry practices, processes, & skills
Scientific Inquiry - asking questions, carrying out investigations, questioning, experimenting, & explaining. Ethnographic and experimental investigations
- Scoring guides and rubrics
Process skills in science practices
- Change
- Classification, Order, Organization, and Systems
- Communication of scientific information
- Constancy
- Equilibrium
- Evidence
- Evolution
- Experiment
- Explanations
- Form
- Function
- Hypothesize and Theory
- Inference
- Inquiry
- Investigation
- Measure
- Models
- Observations, senses
- Operational Definition
- Order
- Organization
- Prediction
- Properties
- Relative Position and Motion
- Systems
- Theory and Hypothesize
- Variable
Cross-cutting skills & unified processes
- Systems, Order, & Organization - patterns, systems, system models
- Evidence, Models, and Explanations - develop, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and use evidence to create explanations and models for cause and effect; mechanism and explanation
- Constancy, Change, and Measurement - stability and change; scale, proportion, and quantity
- Evolution and Equilibrium - Evidence of common ancestry, diversity, natural selection, adaptation, biodiversity and humans; flow, cycle, conservation
- Form and Function - structure and function
Content Areas of Science
Physical Science
- Matter - Properties, interactions, states (solid, liquid, gas), mixtures and solutions, air, density, chemical, air pressure, aerodynamics, and nuclear Vibrations, waves, energy, fields, matter, & particle notes
- Force, motion, interactions, stability, and instability; gravity, weight, weightlessness
- Energy
conservation and transfer of energy, waves and their properties, relationship of energy and force.
- Sound
- Light - |
- Heat
- What's a Flame or fire
- Waves & Electromagnetic radiation (Electricity & Magnetism)
- Chemical
- Nuclear -see matter
- Solar
Life Science concepts
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Organisms (Bacteria, Eukaryota (plants, animals (human anatomy), fungi,), Archaea)
- Structure & Function (Behavior, Adaptation, Diversity, Disease
- Growth & Development (Reproduction, Life cycles,
- Organization of Matter & Energy flow (
- Information Processing (Interactions, Adaptation, Relationships, Social Interactions and Group Behavior
- Human organisms/anatomy - Human identity; Anatomy (structure) & basic functions of life, growth, & development; Health & safety, disease physical, mental/emotional, distress and treatment
- Humans and Animals compared ...
Ecosystems (Populations, Environmental factors, Environments,
- Interdependent Relationships in their Environment & Ecosystems
- Matter & Energy Flow, Transfer & Cycles
- Dynamics, Functions, & Resilience
- Social Interactions & Group Behavior ( Interdependent Functions Relationships & Resilience
- Inheritance of Traits
- Variation of Traits
- Evidence of Common Ancestry (Unity) & Diversity
- Natural Selection
- Adaptations
- Biodiversity and Humans
Earth and Space Science
- The Earth - Its materials and their uses, forces of change, systems, water and the Earth's surface, fossils and biogeology; human activity, resources, hazards, impacts, climate change
- Earth's Atmosphere - Atmosphere, Water Cycle, Weather, season, & climates
- Earth's History - properties of Earth, its evolution, plate tectonics, its place in the universe
- Space and astronomy - the Earth beyond its atmosphere, stars
- Solar -
Perspectives of Science
Engineering & Technology
- Engineering design defining and delimiting problems, developing solutions, optimizing solutions
- Technology and Science linking engineering, technology, and science
- Technology design, systems, and information processing information technology and instrumentation
- Issues in Technology linking engineering, technology, and science to society and the natural world
Personal and Social
- Science's relationship to personal and social decisions: health, safety, natural hazards, and risks. See Human organism for background information
History of Science
Nature of Science
- Subject, perspective, and social nature
Overview
Science concepts
- Habits of mind, attitudes, values, & dispositions for good science
- Inquiry Practices
- Investigation
- Questioning
- Experimenting
- Explaining
- Process skills
- Process skills used in the practice of science investigation
- Cross cutting skills or unified processes used in science practice
- Content
- Perspectives of science
- Engineering & Technology
- Personal & social
- History of science
- Nature of science
Bruce McCandless untethered space walk. 2/12/1984.
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The mechanics of evolution are responsible for every single creature that lives on the face of the Earth; and ever has or will live.
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