Video Case Studies

The video case studies are intended to provide real-life examples of classroom instruction to practice using the ILSP tools. Each case study has various elements to help support understanding, including example video, initial observation forms, and post-observation forms. Some videos were recorded before the release of NGSS and were therefore aligned with the closest performance expectations and science practices. ​

Video

Description
  • 2-ESS2-1: Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land ​
  • Planning and carrying out investigations, Engaging in argument from evidence
  • 3-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. 
  • 1-PS4-1: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
  • Asking questions, Planning and carrying out investigations
  • 4-PS3-2: Energy: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
  • 1-PS4-1 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
  • Developing and using models, Constructing explanations
  • 3-PS2-3. Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
  • Planning and carrying out investigations, Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations
  • 5-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
  • Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations
  • ​​​3-5-ETS1-2: Engineering Design: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
  • 3-5-ETS1-3: Engineering Design: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
  • Planning and carrying out investigations, Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations
  • MS-LS3-2: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. 
  • MS-LS4-5: Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. ​
  • Analyzing and interpreting data, Engaging in argument from evidence
  • MS-LS1-6. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
  • MS-LS1-7. Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
  • Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations, Engaging in argument from evidence
  • MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
  • Constructing explanations