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Exploring your Content Area test(s) Assignment

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Assignment: Read the Overview and Exam Framework and complete the Sample Selected-Response Questions for each content area.

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Science 7-12

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Science 4-8

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Four takeaways:

Science 4-8 contains five major sections with 23 competencies:

Scientific Inquiry and Processes

Physical Science

Life Science

Earth and Space Science

Science Learning, Instruction and Assessment.

Science 7-12 contains ten (!) major sections with 47 (!) competencies:

Scientific Inquiry and Processes

Physics

Chemistry

Cell Structure and Processes

Heredity and Evolution of Life

Diversity of Life

Independence of Life and Environmental Systems

Earth’s History and the Structure and Function of Earth Systems

Components and Properties of the Solar System and the Universe

Science Learning, Instruction and Assessment

Most of the Science 4-8 questions did not involve math besides adding and subtracting. Instead, they were largely conceptual or testing facts rather than mathematical, procedural, analytical, or application based.

The Science 7-12 questions were more analytical than the Science 4-8. Questions often involved math or asked for an application of a concept that just remembering associated facts.

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