WGU C108 Elementary Science Methods
Objective Assessment ACTUAL EXAM STUDY
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1. Inquiry (before) - ANSWER ✓ contemplate the end result of each child's
learning while planning the lesson
2. Inquiry-based lesson - ANSWER ✓ Is more than the lesson idea or the
proper equipment. It involves trusting your students to learn when you give
them the time and responsibility to think on their own. Provide students the
tools to know how to problem solve, give them guidelines on working with
others, provide safety reminders, and let them explore. Our job as teachers is
to circulate and guide students with questions as they discover the solutions
3. 5E model - ANSWER ✓ It is a lesson planning tool that supports process of
inquiry by providing structure for lesson development
4. It is a way to promote inquiry in the classroom
5. What are the five E's in the 5E Instructional Model? - ANSWER ✓ engage
explore
explain
elaborate
evaluate
6. Engagement - ANSWER ✓ 5E model - the first "E"
1. gets the students' attention by accessing prior knowledge
2. students become engaged in a new concept through the use of short activities
that promote curiosity and elicit prior knowledge
,3. The activity should make connections between past and present learning
experiences, expose prior conceptions, and organize students' thinking
toward the learning outcomes of current activities
7. What are four assets that students come to the classroom with? - ANSWER
✓ Personal Assets
Cultural Assets
Community Assets
Developmental Assets
8. Describe Personal Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Specific background information
that students bring to the learning environment. Students bring interests,
knowledge, everyday experiences, and family backgrounds that a teach can
draw upon to support learning.
9. Describe Cultural Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Cultural backgrounds and practices
that students bring to the learning environment, such as traditions,
languages, world views, literature, and art that a teacher can draw upon to
support learning.
10.Describe Community Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Common backgrounds and
experiences that students bring from the community where they live, such as
resources, local landmarks, community events and practices that a teacher
can draw upon to support learning.
11.Describe Developmental Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Refers to specific
background information about cognitive, physical, and social and emotional
development that a teacher can draw upon to support student learning.
12.List modifications you would make in the lesson plan for:
students from a diverse culture - ANSWER ✓ culturally responsive teaching
is less about using racial pride as a motivator and more about mimicking
students' cultural learning styles and tools.
These are the strategies their moms, dads, grandmas, and other community
folks use to teach them life skills and basic concepts long before they come
to school and during out-of-school time.
, modifications:
1. Use Games....great for culturally-grounded learning because they get the
brain's attention and require active processing. Attention is the first step in
learning. We cannot learn, remember, or understand what we don't first pay
attention to. Call and response is just a way to get the brain's attention. Most
games employ a lot of the cultural tools you'd find in oral traditions -
repetition, solving a puzzle, making connections between things that don't
seem to be related
2. make it social.....Organizing learning so that students rely on each other will
build on diverse students' communal orientation. This communal orientation
can be summed up in the African proverb, "I am because we are." Even
making learning slightly competitive in a good-natured way increases
students' level of attention and engagement.
3."storify" it...The brain is wired to remember stories and to use the story
structure to make sense of the world. Diverse students (and all students,
really) learn content more effectively if they can create a coherent narrative
about the topic or process presented.
13.Which is a scientific process that should be taught in the elementary
classroom? - ANSWER ✓ Developing questions to investigate by
experimentation.
14.How do elementary science teachers use inquiry to develop students'
knowledge of scientific ideas? - ANSWER ✓ Teachers trust students to
learn by providing time to think on their own.
15.A sixth-grade teacher wants students to understand the relationship between
inquiry skills and the scientific process. They are to observe worms on dry
and moist towels for 20 minutes, record their observations, and predict if
worms prefer dry or moist conditions.
How can the students achieve this objective? - ANSWER ✓ Students can
apply what they have observed to make predictive claims.
16.Which science learning activity describes the elaborate component of the 5E
model? - ANSWER ✓ Students take what was learned and make real-world
connections to things in their everyday life.
, 17.A fourth-grade teacher wants the class to participate in an inquiry lesson
using magnets. The teacher wants to ensure students have opportunities to
formulate and test hypotheses.
Which strategy should the teacher use to achieve this objective? - ANSWER
✓ Students should use if-then statements while making observations about
magnets interacting with various metal and non-metal objects.
18.A teacher wants to maximize scientific inquiry during a unit on healthcare.
To impact student learning and process skill building, the teacher accepts an
off from a medical doctor to work with the class.
How can the teacher include multiple science process skills during
instruction? - ANSWER ✓ After the doctor share highlights from her career,
have students explore medical-related topics, create if-then statements,
design and test experiments with the doctor's help, and share their results
with the class.
19.A Fifth grade teacher is planning a lesson on chemical and physical changes.
Which types of activities could be used during the explore and elaborate
steps, respectively? - ANSWER ✓ After developing a hypothesis, the
students work through an investigation and apply new knowledge to
different situations.
20.A third grade teacher is planning a lesson on the states of matter and would
like to incorporate the scientific process.
Which strategy should the teacher use to include process skills in the lesson?
- ANSWER ✓ The teacher should ask students to develop unique questions
and complete experimentation.
21.A teacher wants to develop an inquiry lesson on the various densities of
substances and liquids.
How can a teacher provide students with the opportunity to develop and test
hypotheses about the densities of certain substances? - ANSWER ✓ The
teacher should provide the opportunity for students to explore various
Objective Assessment ACTUAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS BANK AND VERIFIED
CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH RATIONALES ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. Inquiry (before) - ANSWER ✓ contemplate the end result of each child's
learning while planning the lesson
2. Inquiry-based lesson - ANSWER ✓ Is more than the lesson idea or the
proper equipment. It involves trusting your students to learn when you give
them the time and responsibility to think on their own. Provide students the
tools to know how to problem solve, give them guidelines on working with
others, provide safety reminders, and let them explore. Our job as teachers is
to circulate and guide students with questions as they discover the solutions
3. 5E model - ANSWER ✓ It is a lesson planning tool that supports process of
inquiry by providing structure for lesson development
4. It is a way to promote inquiry in the classroom
5. What are the five E's in the 5E Instructional Model? - ANSWER ✓ engage
explore
explain
elaborate
evaluate
6. Engagement - ANSWER ✓ 5E model - the first "E"
1. gets the students' attention by accessing prior knowledge
2. students become engaged in a new concept through the use of short activities
that promote curiosity and elicit prior knowledge
,3. The activity should make connections between past and present learning
experiences, expose prior conceptions, and organize students' thinking
toward the learning outcomes of current activities
7. What are four assets that students come to the classroom with? - ANSWER
✓ Personal Assets
Cultural Assets
Community Assets
Developmental Assets
8. Describe Personal Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Specific background information
that students bring to the learning environment. Students bring interests,
knowledge, everyday experiences, and family backgrounds that a teach can
draw upon to support learning.
9. Describe Cultural Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Cultural backgrounds and practices
that students bring to the learning environment, such as traditions,
languages, world views, literature, and art that a teacher can draw upon to
support learning.
10.Describe Community Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Common backgrounds and
experiences that students bring from the community where they live, such as
resources, local landmarks, community events and practices that a teacher
can draw upon to support learning.
11.Describe Developmental Assets: - ANSWER ✓ Refers to specific
background information about cognitive, physical, and social and emotional
development that a teacher can draw upon to support student learning.
12.List modifications you would make in the lesson plan for:
students from a diverse culture - ANSWER ✓ culturally responsive teaching
is less about using racial pride as a motivator and more about mimicking
students' cultural learning styles and tools.
These are the strategies their moms, dads, grandmas, and other community
folks use to teach them life skills and basic concepts long before they come
to school and during out-of-school time.
, modifications:
1. Use Games....great for culturally-grounded learning because they get the
brain's attention and require active processing. Attention is the first step in
learning. We cannot learn, remember, or understand what we don't first pay
attention to. Call and response is just a way to get the brain's attention. Most
games employ a lot of the cultural tools you'd find in oral traditions -
repetition, solving a puzzle, making connections between things that don't
seem to be related
2. make it social.....Organizing learning so that students rely on each other will
build on diverse students' communal orientation. This communal orientation
can be summed up in the African proverb, "I am because we are." Even
making learning slightly competitive in a good-natured way increases
students' level of attention and engagement.
3."storify" it...The brain is wired to remember stories and to use the story
structure to make sense of the world. Diverse students (and all students,
really) learn content more effectively if they can create a coherent narrative
about the topic or process presented.
13.Which is a scientific process that should be taught in the elementary
classroom? - ANSWER ✓ Developing questions to investigate by
experimentation.
14.How do elementary science teachers use inquiry to develop students'
knowledge of scientific ideas? - ANSWER ✓ Teachers trust students to
learn by providing time to think on their own.
15.A sixth-grade teacher wants students to understand the relationship between
inquiry skills and the scientific process. They are to observe worms on dry
and moist towels for 20 minutes, record their observations, and predict if
worms prefer dry or moist conditions.
How can the students achieve this objective? - ANSWER ✓ Students can
apply what they have observed to make predictive claims.
16.Which science learning activity describes the elaborate component of the 5E
model? - ANSWER ✓ Students take what was learned and make real-world
connections to things in their everyday life.
, 17.A fourth-grade teacher wants the class to participate in an inquiry lesson
using magnets. The teacher wants to ensure students have opportunities to
formulate and test hypotheses.
Which strategy should the teacher use to achieve this objective? - ANSWER
✓ Students should use if-then statements while making observations about
magnets interacting with various metal and non-metal objects.
18.A teacher wants to maximize scientific inquiry during a unit on healthcare.
To impact student learning and process skill building, the teacher accepts an
off from a medical doctor to work with the class.
How can the teacher include multiple science process skills during
instruction? - ANSWER ✓ After the doctor share highlights from her career,
have students explore medical-related topics, create if-then statements,
design and test experiments with the doctor's help, and share their results
with the class.
19.A Fifth grade teacher is planning a lesson on chemical and physical changes.
Which types of activities could be used during the explore and elaborate
steps, respectively? - ANSWER ✓ After developing a hypothesis, the
students work through an investigation and apply new knowledge to
different situations.
20.A third grade teacher is planning a lesson on the states of matter and would
like to incorporate the scientific process.
Which strategy should the teacher use to include process skills in the lesson?
- ANSWER ✓ The teacher should ask students to develop unique questions
and complete experimentation.
21.A teacher wants to develop an inquiry lesson on the various densities of
substances and liquids.
How can a teacher provide students with the opportunity to develop and test
hypotheses about the densities of certain substances? - ANSWER ✓ The
teacher should provide the opportunity for students to explore various
