Scientific Inquiry: NGSS 3-5-ETSI, Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Provide your students with a framework to work within as they design and conduct experiments while investigating the natural world. The Next Generation Science Standard 3-5-ETSI, Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, states that students should be able to plan and carry out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems.

Once your students have identified a question they’d like to investigate, these resource pages will guide your students through the process of:
clarifying their questions
developing research questions
using research findings to write a hypothesis
planning and conducting experiments
using their results to construct explanations for their findings
writing conclusions
reflecting on what they were able to accomplish & learn
writing abstracts summarizing what they’ve done to complete their experiment.

This resource includes:
- No-Prep Printable Student Pages
- 2 lined versions for recording responses (wide/ narrow)
- Interactive Digital Pages
- Use interactive, fillable text fields to record student responses
- Fillable text fields become interactive when the interactive pdf is opened
using any pdf reader.
- Rubric
- Teacher Resource Pages

Different options for use:
- Whole Group Instruction
- Small Group Guided Instruction
- Partner/Independent Work

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