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

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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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