Science skills and practices | Technology skills and practices |
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Understanding a problem and what might need to be investigated | Identifying criteria, constraints, problem specifications |
Generating questions that can be investigated | “Messing about” with and understanding materials |
Investigation with a purpose-experimentation, modeling, learning from cases, managing variables, accurate observation and measuring, seeing patterns,… | Investigation for the purpose of application-designing and running models, reading and learning from case studies,… |
Informed decision making, reporting on justifying conclusions | Informed decision making, reporting on and justifying design decisions |
Iteration toward understanding | Iteration toward a good enough solution |
Explaining scientifically | Explaining failures and refining solutions |
Investigation planning | Prioritizing criteria, trading them off against each other, and optimizing |
Communication of ideas, results, interpretations, implications, justifications, explanations, principles | Communication of ideas, design decisions, justifications, explanations, design rules of thumb |
Teamwork, collaboration across teams, giving credit | Teamwork, collaboration across teams, give credit |