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Overview
Students investigate structures
in the universe, origins, and relationships to each
other.
Learning Expectations:
Understand the composition, structure, and formation of
the universe.
Understand the stars and space exploration.
Understand the properties
and uses of light.
Understand the basic wave nature of the electromagnetic
spectrum.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific
investigation.
- Design and conduct scientific investigations.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze,
and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence.
- Describe light effects (e.g., Doppler effect, absorption,
emission spectra).
- Explain essential ideas about the composition and structure
of the universe.
- Think critically and logically to make connections between
evidence and explanations.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that different kinds of questions suggest different
kinds of scientific investigations; current knowledge guides
scientific investigations; and mathematics and technology
are important scientific tools.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize evidence.
- Record and graph data concretely, pictorially, and symbolically
to discover relationships.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with planetary science.
- Use scientific thinking processes to
conduct investigations and build explanations: observing,
communicating, organizing, relating and inferring.
- Work collaboratively and relate knowledge to new experiences.
- Understand
science safety and follow safe practices.
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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