Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.2: Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics
- Organizing Category - 3.2.B: Physics
- Grade Level - 3.2.7.B: GRADE 7
Standard - 3.2.7.B7
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods, or procedures for an investigation or new technologies to improve data collection.
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Assessment Anchor - S7.C.2
Forms, Sources, Conversion, and Transfer of Energy
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Anchor Descriptor - S7.C.2.1
Describe how energy flows through the living world.
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Eligible Content - S7.C.2.1.3
Describe energy transformations within an ecosystem.
