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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.3: Earth and Space Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.3.A: Earth Structure, Processes and Cycles
- Grade Level - 3.3.6.A: GRADE 6
Standard - 3.3.6.A7
- 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 - S6.C.1 Structure, Properties, and Interaction of Matter and Energy
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.C.1.1 Explain that matter has observable physical properties.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.1.1.1 Describe how characteristic physical properties of matter can be used to distinguish one substance from another (e.g., boiling point, freezing/melting points).
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Eligible Content - S6.C.1.1.2 Explain that materials are characterized by having a specific amount of mass in each unit of volume (density).
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.C.1.2 Describe that matter can undergo chemical and physical changes.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.1.2.1 Describe how water changes from one state to another.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.1.2.2 Identify differences between chemical and physical changes of matter.
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