Standard: K. Scientific Reasoning
Students will learn to formulate and justify ideas and to make informed decisions.
Common Assessment(s): MAP Task: Organizing Life

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Examine the ways people form generalizations.	What is a concept? What is a generalization? Big idea vs. facts			Classification Living vs. nonliving.	Labs: All performance activities are assess with written or verbal reports.	.
2. Identify exceptions to proposed generalizations.	Comparing and contrasting the difference in concepts and components of concepts.			Viruses Fossil fuels Family Grouping platypus plankton protozoans	.	.
3. Identify basic informal fallacies in arguments.	Identify holes within arguments.			Mammals vs. Aves Natural vs. artificial selections	Debate	.
4. Analyze means of slanting information.	Students should understand the difference in manipulated data and raw data.			Advertisements for chemical compounds. Antibiotics--effects on body Trial labs--5 out of 1 Statistic manipulation	See Health Activity E	.
5. Identify stereotypes.	Students should understand stereotypes and how they affect decisions.			Genetics vs. cloning Heredity Cross race/gender scientist	.	.
6. Support reasoning by using a variety of evidence.	Evidence is needed to support reasoning.			Alter Periodic Table	Map	.
7. Show that proving a hypothesis false is easier than proving it true, and explain why.	Students understand the difference in a theory and a law.			How does salinity affect reproduction of brine shrimp.	Brine shrimp lab. Crystal growth structure	theory law
8. Construct logical arguments.	Be able to argue for or against an opinion.			Nanorovers Demolition Derby	Race.	.
9. Apply analogous reasoning.	Understand the difference in a science topic and a non-related topic.			Alien Periodic Table Cell vs. city	Brochures, maps	.