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FOSS AND CALIFORNIA STANDARDS
The Solid Earth Module supports the following
Investigation and Experimentation Content Standards for grade 4.*
INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
I&E6. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions
and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content
in the other three strands, students should develop their own
questions and perform investigations. Students will
I&E6a. differentiate observation from inference (interpretation)
and know scientists’ explanations come partly from
what they observe and partly from how they interpret
their observations.
I&E6b. measure and estimate the weight, length, or volume of
objects.
I&E6c. formulate and justify predictions based on cause-and-effect
relationships.
I&E6d. conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw
conclusions about the relationships between predictions
and results.
I&E6f. follow a set of written instructions for a scientific
investigation.
*Science Content Standards for California Public Schools: Kindergarten
through Grade Twelve (Sacramento: California Department of
Education, 2000).
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