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Inquiry Cards for Scientific Investigation

The document outlines the key practices of science and engineering. It discusses constructing explanations through identifying scientific causes, modeling systems mathematically, and using computational thinking. It also discusses asking questions to address phenomena or problems, planning and carrying out investigations by collecting evidence to investigate phenomena, analyzing and interpreting data, and engaging in argument from evidence to evaluate claims. The document provides guidance on how to develop good explanations, questions, investigations, and arguments.

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Inquiry Cards for Scientific Investigation

The document outlines the key practices of science and engineering. It discusses constructing explanations through identifying scientific causes, modeling systems mathematically, and using computational thinking. It also discusses asking questions to address phenomena or problems, planning and carrying out investigations by collecting evidence to investigate phenomena, analyzing and interpreting data, and engaging in argument from evidence to evaluate claims. The document provides guidance on how to develop good explanations, questions, investigations, and arguments.

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What do you wonder? What do you think?

Constructing
Explanations
Mathematics

Asking Computational

Questions Developing
and Using
Models
Thinking

How do you investigate? How do you know?

Engaging in Argument
from Evidence
Planning and
Carrying Out
Obtaining, 


Investigations Analyzing and


Interpreting
Data
Evaluating and 

Communicating
Information
What do you think? What do you wonder?

Constructing Explanations Asking Questions

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Good Explanations: Good Questions:
Identify a scientific cause Address the phenomenon or problem

Identify the components of the system Identify the nature of the question
Observational - What do I notice?
Use connections between the components to
explain, describe and predict Explanatory - How does it work?
Represent the components of the system Systems - What happens in the system?
mathematically Engineering - What is the problem?
Use computational thinking Can be empirically tested

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How do you know? How do you investigate?

Engaging in Argument Planning and Carrying


From Evidence Out Investigations

Good Arguments:
Obtain, evaluate and organize the evidence
Good Investigations:
Identify patterns within and between datasets
Investigate a phenomenon or design.
Identify a claim
Identify the evidence that will be collected
Link the evidence and claim with a chain of
Have a plan
reasoning.
Collect evidence
Communicate information using the appropriate
Improve the design of the investigation
style and format

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What do you notice? How does it work?

Cause & Effect

Patterns Structure
Function

What happens in the system? What is happening?

Systems
System Models
Phenomenon
Energy
Scale
Stability Observable events in

Proportion
Matter Quantity Change the real world

How does it work? What do you notice?

Cause & Effect Patterns


See - Hear - Touch - Smell - Taste

Structural

What’s the structure? What’s the function?

What are the parts?


How does it change?
What stays the same?
What is related?
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What is the problem? What happens in the system?

Systems and System Models

Inputs Outputs
What is the boundary?
What are the parts?
What flows?
What cycles?
What is the boundary?
What flows? What cycles?
What makes it change?
Problem What keeps it stable?
What is important?
Human needs and wants
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