21st+Century+Science

21st Cenury Skills Maps

**Example:** Students will work in small groups discussing ways to build a mouse trap driven car. After collaboration with each other students will then build the car and put together a presentation about the features that their car has. At the end of the project students will compete in races and in long distance competitions as well give their presentations to the class.
 * Collaboration **
 * High School **
 * Outcome: ** Students collaborate with peers and experts during scientific discourse and appropriately dedfend arguments using scientific reasoning, logic and modeling.

**Example:** Students critique the validity of information sources on hot botton issues in environmental science such as global warming. They then will gather scientific research material on the topic. Fianally they will put together their own information packet on the topic and point out true facts and figures to back up their findings **. ** **Example:** Students will look up the latest technologies in different fields of science and how they are impacting that field for scientist to better understand and complete goals they have come up with.
 * Information Literacy **
 * High School **
 * Outcome: ** Students are able to determine the verifiability of evidnece presented in print and electronic resources to evaluate scientific claims.
 * Information and Communications Technology Literacy **
 * High School **
 * Outcome: ** Students can provide examples of how new technologies make it possible for scientists to extend their research in new ways or to undertake entirely new lines of research, and how the very availability of new technology itself often sparks sparks scientific advances.

**Example:** From the exploratory activity, students will design an experiment that would allow them to prove that the Law of Conservation of Mass is correct when an Alka Seltzer tablet reacts in water. Students will come up with a hypothesis and the procedures to test it by themselfs and carry out the experiment to see if their hypothesis is right or wrong.
 * Flexibility and Adaptability **
 * High School **
 * Outcome: Students are able to revise their own scientific ideas and hypotheses based on new evidence or information **