Friday, December 21, 2018

Skills of Practices - Class brainstorming on 12/04/18

Making Observations
  • Make observations
  • Describe what you see/hear/feel/smell/taste
  • Identify parts of a system
  • Identifying variables
  • Quantifying stuff/data (assigning numbers to observations)
  • Comparing/contrasting observations
    • Similarities of things
    • Differences of things
  • Communicating observations
    • Discussing observations
  • Organizing/Categorizing observations
  • Changing perspectives
    • Changing scale/proportion/speed/timescale you are observing
    • Using a third party
  • Using multiple senses
  • Finding patterns
  • Making connections
    • Using prior knowledge
    • Connect to real world
  • Using tools to enhance observations
  • Making sure that observations are relevant
  • Change scale/proportion/quantity/speed of the object (investigations?)

Asking Questions
  • Ask questions
  • Asking non-testable questions (fact-based, opinion etc)
  • Asking testable questions
    • Turning a non-testable questions into question
  • Asking questions about functions
  • Asking questions about patterns
  • Making sure that questions are relevant
  • Asking why things act the way they do
  • Asking what I can do to go further
  • Asking what other resources can I use
  • Asking goal-oriented questions
  • Asking questions to test a model
  • Asking what happens to the system when a variable is changed
  • What if questions?
  • Cause and effect questions?
  • Analyzing data data to ask a question?
  • Asking evidence-driven questions
  • Asking observation-drive questions
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
  • Identify something testable
  • Make a claim
  • Using prior knowledge
  • Forming a hypothesis
    • Anticipating outcome (making a prediction)
  • Identify variables relevant to investigation
  • Isolating variables
  • Manipulating variable
  • Collecting data
  • Identifying function and stability
  • Think about real world applications
  • Iteration
  • Asking questions and refining
  • Evaluate materials resources and time
  • Constraints and criteria
  • Identify problem or challenge
    • Planning an investigation that addresses a problem or challenge
  • Recruit assistance/assistants
  • Determine type of data to collect (Qualitative or quantitative)
  • Using senses
  • Carrying out investigation with precision
  • Carrying out investigation as planned
  • Not being biased (scientific objectivity)


Analyzing and Interpreting Data

  • Organizing data
  • Identify patterns
  • Identify data type and source
  • Determine data collection method
  • Identify and interpret variables
  • Generate and analyze graphs
  • Drawing conclusions
    • Assessing prior predictions  
    • Have you answered the testable question?
    • Identify cause and effect
  • Identify outliers/anomalies and what to do with them
  • Filtering data for what is relevant
  • Comprehension and understanding data
  • Ensure accuracy of data identify errors
  • Identify usefulness and purpose
  • Understand scale of data
  • Looking at data from different perspectives

Developing and Using Models

  • Making  predictions
    • Using prior knowledge
    • Using patterns
    • Identifying patterns
    • Based on variables
    • Cause and effect
  • Identifying subsystems within model
  • Connecting to real life or previously known models
  • Determining model type (Physical vs mental)
  • Test model
  • Building model
  • Combining model
  • Making a mental model into a physical model
  • Represent your mental model somehow (math, diagram, physical)
  • Comparing models
  • Apply model to abstract concepts
  • Determine functionality of model
  • Manipulating variables and controlling variables
  • Improving models
  • Explain evidence that supports or does not support a model
  • Explaining the limits of a model
  • Justify a prediction based on patterns in evidence
  • Use a model to make a prediction

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