Objectives
Students will:
- Describe and apply a process for researching a scientific topic.
- Gather information relevant to topics represented by a set of research questions.
- Assess the credibility of sources of scientific information.
- Compare and contrast the facts provided by different scientific documents and those documents' interpretation of similar facts.
Skills Needed
Students must be able to:
- Identify the purpose and audience for a specific example of science writing.
- Identify an article's main idea and supporting ideas.
- Describe how an author uses supporting ideas to develop and refine an article's main idea.
