8th Grade Science Guide

Engage: Learner has a need to know, therefore, defnes questions, issues or problems that relate to his/her world. Learner Teacher Teacher Talk Moves Calls upon prior knowledge Poses problems ● What experiences have you had with ____ in the past? ● Where have you seen ____ used in the past? ● How does that connect with our investigation question? Explore: Learner gathers, organizes, interprets, analyzes, and evaluates data. Learner Teacher Teacher Talk Moves Hypothesizes and Predicts Shows students how tousenew tools ● Given your thinking so far, what do you predict will happen during our investigation? ● What do you predict the Identifes problems to solve, decisions to be made, confict to be resolved Ask questions ● What questions do you have about _____? ● What do you need to know more about to understand ______? Writes questions, problems, etc. Questioning

outcome of our investigation will be? ● What data do you need to collect in order to check your prediction? ● What processes are you using to take careful and accurate measurement? ● What could you change about your data collection to be more scientifc? ● How are you going to record your data? ● What patterns are you seeing in the data you collected? ● How do the patterns in your data

Design and carry out investigations with care

Help design and carry out skills of recording, document, and drawing conclusions

Analyze data and draw conclusions

Help students form tentative explanations

help you to answer the investigation question?