October November 2011

How the World Works

Understanding the scientific process can lead to discovery and innovation
Dear Year 6 EAL Parents, The second Unit of Inquiry in Year 6 is an investigation into How the scientific process works, How the scientific process ensures reliability How reliable discoveries lead to further innovation

Unit Vocabulary
analyse
conclusions compare data experiment fair test
Form/Function The scientific process leads us from hypothesis to conclusions

Causation The reliability of the scientific process enables us to discover and innovate

Reflection Consciously reflecting on, and being able to describe how we gain scientific knowledge and understanding

hypothesis
investigate/ investigation predict/ prediction procedure reliable/ reliability theory

This will be a hands-on unit where the students will be conducting a variety of scientific investigations and experiments following the scientific process. The students will learn to write reports based on observations made. The focus in Language Arts and EAL will be on non-fiction texts. We will be developing our critical reading skills by identifying the features of non-fiction texts and learning important strategies such as skimming, and scanning.
Resources: The NIST Science blog has loads of experiments, resources and non-fiction reading materials for kids to explore. http://blogs.nist.ac.th/elescience/

variables
valid/ validity