FOSS Human Body Module Glossary

Science is a rich content area for developing language concepts and vocabulary. While conducting FOSS investigations, students are involved in observing properties, comparing and organizing their observations, and identifying relationships from their observations. In order to effectively communicate the results of their investigations, it is important to use concise and appropriate vocabulary. Students need to develop a sound vocabulary that will serve them in science and life.

Informal descriptive language and precise scientific vocabulary is best developed after direct concrete experience. As students conduct the investigations in the FOSS Human Body Module, vocabulary is introduced naturally after students have had an experience to which to connect the new words.

Some of the vocabulary is introduced and reviewed with students in the Wrapping Up section of the investigation folio in the Teacher Guide. These are listed below and identified with the abbreviation TG. Additional words are introduced and included FOSS Science Stories glossary. These words are identified with the abbreviation SS.

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Spanish Glossary

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In the course of the investigations, students are encouraged to learn and use the following vocabulary: