content Area: K Scientific Reasoning:
Students will learn to formulate and justify ideas and to make informed decisions.
Common Assessment(s)

Benchmark/ Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities (Relating to Assessments)	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary * Indicates a word the teacher uses to help students start to understand
1. Examine strengths and weaknesses of simple arguments.	Identify strength and weaknesses of an argument			Students will perform experiments that will produce a variety of results. Resource: Example: The Shadow Experiment. Go outside two or three different times during the same day. Their feet/base needs to be in the same place and position each time. Allow students to pick different places for the experiment. Students who stand near areas that will be in the shadow later in the day will likely have more of an interesting results to discuss. Map Task Shadow Changes Refer to <http://www.bathpublicschools.com/fms/grade2/shadowba.html> for a clearer visual and explanation of the experiment.	Students will explain the results and why they vary from group to group.	Argument Classify *Conclude Conclusion Demonstrate Diagram Discover Discussion Experiment *Hypotheses Important/unimportant Information Investigate *Justify *Logic Observation Observe Organism Outcome *Particular Patterns Predict Produce Relationships Results Simple Strengths System Viewing Weakness
2. Distinguish between important and unimportant information in simple arguments.	Identify the important information in simple arguments			Students will discuss the results of their experiments and decide what information is needed to draw a valid conclusion and what information is just interesting but not important.	Students will justify (give reasons) why they think a particular piece of information about their experiment is important on unimportant.
3. Make observations.	Make observation surroundings experiments relationships measurements			Student will gain skills in measuring and viewing experiments in a variety of ways. Example: Students will measure their shadows and observe the change in size and direction depending on the time of day.	Students will be able to demonstrate how they make observations.
4. Participate in brainstorming activities.	Follow the rules of brainstorming			Student will meet in large and small groups to predict what they believe will be the results of an experiment .	Students will write or tell the class/small group their hypotheses for an experiment's outcome.
5. Use various forms of simple logic.	Draw conclusions using information			Student will learn how to draw conclusions base on several samples of evidence.	Student will explain how they drew conclusions base on several samples of evidence.
6. Discover relationships and patterns.	Identify relationships and patterns			Example A. Students will study a living organism noting its characteristics. Example B. Students will investigate and observe various objects and systems looking for patterns. Students will study sorting. They will learn about diagrams.	Example A. Students will list the characteristics of an organism. Example B. Students will create a diagram of a classification system for a group of objects. They will be able to apply this knowledge to different objects.