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BENCHMARK CODE |
BENCHMARK |
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SC.912.N.2.1 |
Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High |
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SC.912.N.2.2 |
Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High |
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SC.912.N.2.3 |
Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Low |
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SC.912.N.2.4 |
Explain that scientific knowledge is both durable and robust and open to change. Scientific knowledge can change because it is often examined and re-examined by new investigations and scientific argumentation. Because of these frequent examinations, scientific knowledge becomes stronger, leading to its durability.
Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High |
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SC.912.N.2.5 |
Describe instances in which scientists’ varied backgrounds, talents, interests, and goals influence the inferences and thus the explanations that they make about observations of natural phenomena and describe that competing interpretations (explanations) of scientists are a strength of science as they are a source of new, testable ideas that have the potential to add new evidence to support one or another of the explanations.
Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High |
