Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: paraphrase that science is observing, analyzing, and investigating to learn how the natural and physical world works; establish learning goals aligned to standards that identify what students should know, understand, and be able to do at their grade level; illustrate how designing a positive classroom environment is essential to promoting active inquiry learning; explain how understanding science ideas means being able to explain, to interpret, to apply and adapt knowledge; describe how inquiry-based instruction features practices needed to ask and try to answer a scientific question; illustrate how asking the right question is at the heart of teaching and learning; investigate how assessment processes provide opportunities to gather evidence of student learning (summative) or for student learning (formative) which can be evaluated to determine level of mastery of the identified learning goals; investigate how technology can be used support learning in the science classroom; explain how science doesn’t happen in isolation but is connected to mathematics when the learning goals from each discipline and the student practice skills from both disciplines are linked; and scrutinize how equity, diversity, and achievement gaps should be considered when guiding all children to learn science.