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Purposeful teaching takes place when a teacher creates condition for learning that help students find personal meaning from the content and subject taught.

• True

• False

When the word science entered the English language from French during the fourteenth century, it referred to:

• the understanding (of something) acquired by study.

• the knowledge (of something) acquired by study.

• a particular branch of knowledge.

• a specific branch of knowledge.

Science is a process of generating knowledge.

• True

• False

True or False

Scientific knowledge is not reliable or tentative.

• True

• False

__________________ surrounds us all day, every day.

_______________ is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision-making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity.

• Scientic process

• Scientific literacy

• Science and Technology

• Science learning

STEM is an acronym. What does each letter mean?

Students are more likely to be intellectually engaged in deep science learning when they....

• find that it is fun.

• find it to be more challenging.

• find it to be easy to complete.

• find it relevant to their daily lives.

Young children are naturally curious and can learn science.

• True

• False

Appropriate science instruction fosters increased student achievement in language arts and mathematics.

• True

• False