How Does the Marble Roll Support the National Science Education Standards (NSES)?

Content Standards K-12

Unifying Concepts and Processes Standard-Systems, "Prediction is the use of knowledge to identify and explain observations, or changes in advance" (page 116). "Evidence consists of observations and data on which to base scientific explanations...Scientific explanations incorporate existing scientific knowledge and new evidence from observations, experiments, or models into internally consistent, logical statements" (page 117). "Changes in systems can be quantified. Evidence for interactions and subsequent change and the formulation of scientific explanations are often clarified through quantitative distinctions-measurement...Different systems of measurement are used for different purposes. Scientists usually use the metric system" (page 118).

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