Science
Alberta Program of Studies
Students will:
Focus
Students will:
Focus
- ask questions that lead to exploration and investigation
- identify one or more possible answers to questions by stating predictions or hypotheses
- identify, with guidance, procedures to be followed in finding answers to given questions
- carry out procedures developed by themselves or identified by others
- identify materials and how they are used
- work independently or with others to carry out the identified procedures
- identify, with guidance, sources of information and ideas and, with guidance, access information and ideas from those sources. Sources may include library, classroom, community and computer-based resources
- record observations and measurements, using captioned pictures and charts, with guidance in the construction of charts. Computer resources may be used for record keeping and for display and interpretation of data
- state an inference, based on observations
- identify applications of what was learned
- identify new questions that arise from the investigation.