Science+Literacy

==== Scientific literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity. It also includes specific types of abilities. ====

==== Scientific literacy means that a person can ask, find, or determine answers to questions derived from curiosity about everyday experiences. It means that a person has the ability to describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena. Scientific literacy entails being able to read with understanding articles about science in the popular press and to engage in social conversation about the validity of the conclusions. Scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed. A literate citizen should be able to evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it. Scientific literacy also implies the capacity to pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately. (National Science Education Standards, page 22) ====

==== The effective science teacher works to develop scientifically literate students. That is your challenge as you embark on this career. In order to effectively develop scientifically literate students, you must be scientifically literate yourself. This includes, among other things, understanding the nature of science as a discipline, including not only concepts but processes, limitations, etc.====

==== While science itself is not controversial, the manners in which it overlaps with societal norms and values, religious beliefs, and political agendas can make it so. The effective science teacher must learn to navigate these areas in order to develop students into scientifically literate, critical thinkers.====

Sample Science Literacy Activities:
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[|The Structure of DNA: Cooperation and Competition - Complex version]

C. "What Happened to Great Grandpa John?" (The Checks Lab)






D. "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka
E.[|Data Analysis Activities]

Student Work:
Alisha Jones- Science Literacy Assignment The literacy components that I focused on for this assignment were: interpreting data and making graph, deductive reasoning, and design for scientific investigation. I believe these are very important for every in coming high school student to understand. The goal is through that activities that I have chosen they will be able to understand the concept and learn from what they have done. Janelle Czapar - Science Literacy Assignment

Laura Zehr - Science Literacy Assignment I have focused my literacy plan on interpreting/graphing data, analyzing science in the news, scientific research, and peer data, and formulating a hypothesis. I feel that these skills are essential in the students future success in the science classroom and in analyzing and interpreting the world of science.

Kira Hedrich- Science Literacy Assignment

Laura Sedivy - Science Literacy Assignment This is my science literacy plan. The science literacy skills that I chose to focus on were collecting, organizing, and analyzing data (which includes graphing), critical thinking and problem solving within the context of science, and conducting experiments to test hypotheses and make conclusions.

Kari Koppers -Science Literacy Assignment. For this assignment, I chose the literacy skills of deductive reasoning, interpreting graphs and data, and knowing and apply the concepts, principles, and processes of technological design. For deductive reasoning I chose an activity that would incorporate the scientific method and the important inventors and their inventions for a lesson on tech design. These are two activity I would have thougth would be taught in a science classroom anyway. I also included a lot of questions about data in a graphical form to help the students prepare for the standardized tests.

Diane Coughlin- Science Literacy Assignment To incorporate Science Literacy in the classroom, I have identified three skills which I would want my students to have. Those three skills are to be able to develop hypothesis from gathered data, to evaluate statements by asking questions, and make observations and to organize them logically.

Julie Massanisso - Science Literacy Assignment The science literacy goals I focused on for this assignment were the first three listed under Goal 11- a) to formulate a hypothesis based on prior research and knowledge, b) to conduct controlled experiments to test a hypothesis, and c) to collect, organize, and analyze data accurately and precisely. These three most basic skills are essential not only to science, but to a wide range of professional fields and even every day life.

Connor Downs - Science Literacy I focused on 3 different literacy skills in the classroom and went through how to apply it. I attached links or went through how to do the assignment in class in order for students to have the most use out of the skills they are going to learn.

Connor Downs - Science Literacy (Corrections)

Jennifer Williams- Science Literacy Assessment The science literacy goals I chose to focus on were: scientific communication, collection & organization of data, and deductive reasoning. I think all of these skills are necessary to developing a substantial literacy in the sciences. I tried to find activities that students would find fun, but would still be educational and applicable to many various situations throughout a student's academic career.

Leslie Garcia Science Literacy The Literacy goals I focused on were to identify a problem, form a hypothesis and to organize data in order to determine if their hypothesis was correct from Goal 11. These are all essential to science and also to Literacy as I use specific Literacy strategies to have the students do this. I came up with this activity on my own and have not yet implemented it. My descriptors for the second lesson are under Steve's assignment. Steve White- Science Literacy Assignment I have identified three literacy goals in which I have listed how I plan to develop the skill, why is it important, and an activity to help students learn these science literacies. All of my activitys I have came up with myself and believe will help students passivly and activly learn these skills.





Emily Matko - Science Literacy Assignment The literacy skills that I chose to focus on include: being able to collect data and make a graph, effectively navigating the internet, and creating solutions to problems. These are all skills that are pertinent to finding success in the classroom but extend outside the classroom as well. Practicing these skills will prepare students to collect and organize information about their world, independently find sound answers to their inquiries, as well as develop ideas to solve personal/academic questions. All of which are skills necessary to becoming a scientifically literate individual.

Kevin Pavesic- Science Literacy Assignment The literacy skills that I chose to include were data analysis, formulating a hypothesis using prior knowledge, and applying the scientific method. I feel like these are all essential skills that every student needs to succeed at science.

Taylor Farnetti -Science Literacy Assignment The literacy goals/skills I chose to include were critical thinking/discussion, scientific writing, and how to write observations out in words. I think these skills are beneficial for high school students due to the fact that it might help them in the future. I think that many people find science to be just experiments, but if we open up their eyes how to make science seem creative with words then it might interest more students.

Jill Wojtanowicz- Science Literacy I chose to cover the following science literacy skills: The ability to find reliable prior research, differentiating qualitative and quantitative data, and using consistent metric measuring and recording techniques with necessary precision.