Please note that the below standards in Science and Technology are what we focus on with LabVenture! and that our activities may also meet standards in Career and Education Development, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies.

B. The Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design:

Students plan, conduct, analyze data from and communicate results of in-depth scientific investigations; and they use a systematic process, tools, equipment, and a variety of materials to create a technological design and produce a solution or product to meet a specified need.

B1 Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry

Grades 3-5
Students plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of investigations, including fair tests.

• a. Pose investigable questions and seek answers from reliable sources of scientific information and from their own investigations.
• b. Plan and safely conduct investigations including simple experiments that involve
  a fair test.
• c. Use simple equipment, tools, and appropriate metric units of measurement to gather data and extend the senses.
• d. Use data to construct and support a reasonable explanation.
• e. Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.

Grades 6-8
Students plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of investigations, including simple experiments.

• a. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
• c. Use appropriate tools, metric units, and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
• d. Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present data and structure convincing explanations.
• f. Communicate, critique, and analyze their own scientific work and the work of other students.

C. The Scientific and Technological Enterprise:

Students understand the history and nature of scientific knowledge and technology, the processes of inquiry and technological design, and the impacts science and technology have on society and the environment.

C1 Understandings of Inquiry

Grades 3-5
Students describe how scientific investigations result in explanations that are communicated to other scientists.

• a. Describe how scientists answer questions by developing explanations based on observations, evidence, and knowledge of the natural world.
• b. Describe how scientists make their explanations public.

C2 Understandings about Science and Technology

Grades 3-5
Students describe why people use science and technology and how scientists and engineers work.

• a. Describe how scientists seek to answer questions and explain the natural world.