Science for Elementary Teachers 2

Use skills of scientific inquiry to collect, organize, and analyze a variety of scientific data; to construct hypotheses and design and conduct scientific investigations to evaluate them; and to compare and use varying types of scientific inquiry.

Compare and evaluate competing scientific explanations and theories, and make and defend a scientific argument.

Identify, describe, and apply fundamental concepts and principles of physical science concerning to physical and chemical properties, structure, and changes of matter; to position, motion, and force; to forms and transfer of energy; and to light, sound, heat, electricity, and magnetism.

Identify, describe, and apply the fundamental concepts and principles of earth and space science to properties of earth materials; to objects and changes in the sky; to structure and processes of the solid earth portion of the earth system; to processes and change on the Earth's surface; and to history of the earth and life.