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NSTA Standards


Expectations Description
Unifying Concepts and Processes All students should develop understanding and abilities aligned with the following concepts and processes:
  • Systems, order, and organization
  • Evidence, models, and explanation
  • Constancy, change, and measurement
Science as Inquiry All students should develop:
  • Abilities necessary to do inquiry:
    • Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
    • Design and conduct scientific investigations.
    • Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications.
    • Formulate and revise scientific explanations using logic and evidence.
    • Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
  • Understandings of scientific inquiry.