FTCE K-6 SCIENCE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔negatively charged - ✔✔If you comb your hair and the comb becomes positively
charged, your hair becomes:
✔✔Reduced - ✔✔In a parallel circuit, the current has multiple paths and resistance is
✔✔True - ✔✔Ohm's Law says that current is directly proportional to voltage and
inversely proportional to resistance.
✔✔the angle of reflection from a mirror equals the angle of incidence. - ✔✔The law of
reflection says that:
✔✔False - ✔✔Neither light nor sound can be refracted.
✔✔vibrating objects. - ✔✔Sound waves are produced by:
✔✔Interference - ✔✔__________ occurs when two or more waves overlap.
✔✔Use students' prior knowledge, Teach students to make inferences, Organize
content on broad conceptual themes and Incorporate problem-solving and reasoning. -
✔✔What are some developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching science
practices in the elementary grades? Check all that apply.
✔✔Summative - ✔✔Which type of assessment generally has the highest stakes?
✔✔Level 3 and Level 4 - ✔✔In Webb's Depth of Knowledge Content Complexity
Ratings, which levels incorporate complex reasoning?
✔✔True - ✔✔Formative assessments serve as practice for students, similar to
homework.
✔✔Recall and think about what they have learned - ✔✔When combined with linguistic
learning, nonlinguistic learning helps students
✔✔Makes it easier for students to think about physical reality - ✔✔The use of models in
the science classroom
✔✔are useful in experimentation. - ✔✔Models
✔✔False - ✔✔Informal science learning experiences do not help students understand
their formal science learning experiences.
, ✔✔True - ✔✔Informal learning experiences can help students gain science literacy.
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔One of the best ways to dispel the notion that knowledge about
science is dispensed by the teacher alone is through
✔✔True - ✔✔Debate is a method of correcting student misconceptions about science.
✔✔are helpful in making students understand the 'why' behind a reading assignment. -
✔✔Word clues that signal relationships between variables
✔✔When a reading assignment covers a complex concept - ✔✔Choose the best
reason students need to understand the 'why' behind a science reading assignment.
✔✔True - ✔✔Numeracy includes the science skill of recognizing patterns.
✔✔The distance between what a learner can do with help and without help - ✔✔In
differentiation, the zone of proximal development refers to
✔✔False - ✔✔Drawing upon the community is helpful but not necessary in developing
culturally responsive schools.
✔✔Shifting from a competitive to a cooperative educational model - ✔✔What shift in the
classroom may be required to achieve gender equity?
✔✔oxygen - ✔✔Which of the following is not a by-product of cellular respiration?
✔✔ coaching and guiding children as needed - ✔✔During the discovery and application
process students are making discoveries. Which of the following should the teacher be
doing?
✔✔sonar - ✔✔Which scientific device would be most appropriate to use to map the
ocean floor?
✔✔graduated cylinder - ✔✔When examining the color and clarity of 20 milliliters of a
liquid, which of the following would be the most appropriate substitute for a test tube?
✔✔when the bob is at the top of the arc - ✔✔A pendulum bob swings back and forth.
When does the bob have its greatest potential energy?
✔✔understanding the evolution of the solar system - ✔✔Which of the following is the
most important rationale for the scientific study of Mars?
✔✔chloroplast - ✔✔Which of the following structures is present in plant cells but not in
animal cells?
GRADED A+
✔✔negatively charged - ✔✔If you comb your hair and the comb becomes positively
charged, your hair becomes:
✔✔Reduced - ✔✔In a parallel circuit, the current has multiple paths and resistance is
✔✔True - ✔✔Ohm's Law says that current is directly proportional to voltage and
inversely proportional to resistance.
✔✔the angle of reflection from a mirror equals the angle of incidence. - ✔✔The law of
reflection says that:
✔✔False - ✔✔Neither light nor sound can be refracted.
✔✔vibrating objects. - ✔✔Sound waves are produced by:
✔✔Interference - ✔✔__________ occurs when two or more waves overlap.
✔✔Use students' prior knowledge, Teach students to make inferences, Organize
content on broad conceptual themes and Incorporate problem-solving and reasoning. -
✔✔What are some developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching science
practices in the elementary grades? Check all that apply.
✔✔Summative - ✔✔Which type of assessment generally has the highest stakes?
✔✔Level 3 and Level 4 - ✔✔In Webb's Depth of Knowledge Content Complexity
Ratings, which levels incorporate complex reasoning?
✔✔True - ✔✔Formative assessments serve as practice for students, similar to
homework.
✔✔Recall and think about what they have learned - ✔✔When combined with linguistic
learning, nonlinguistic learning helps students
✔✔Makes it easier for students to think about physical reality - ✔✔The use of models in
the science classroom
✔✔are useful in experimentation. - ✔✔Models
✔✔False - ✔✔Informal science learning experiences do not help students understand
their formal science learning experiences.
, ✔✔True - ✔✔Informal learning experiences can help students gain science literacy.
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔One of the best ways to dispel the notion that knowledge about
science is dispensed by the teacher alone is through
✔✔True - ✔✔Debate is a method of correcting student misconceptions about science.
✔✔are helpful in making students understand the 'why' behind a reading assignment. -
✔✔Word clues that signal relationships between variables
✔✔When a reading assignment covers a complex concept - ✔✔Choose the best
reason students need to understand the 'why' behind a science reading assignment.
✔✔True - ✔✔Numeracy includes the science skill of recognizing patterns.
✔✔The distance between what a learner can do with help and without help - ✔✔In
differentiation, the zone of proximal development refers to
✔✔False - ✔✔Drawing upon the community is helpful but not necessary in developing
culturally responsive schools.
✔✔Shifting from a competitive to a cooperative educational model - ✔✔What shift in the
classroom may be required to achieve gender equity?
✔✔oxygen - ✔✔Which of the following is not a by-product of cellular respiration?
✔✔ coaching and guiding children as needed - ✔✔During the discovery and application
process students are making discoveries. Which of the following should the teacher be
doing?
✔✔sonar - ✔✔Which scientific device would be most appropriate to use to map the
ocean floor?
✔✔graduated cylinder - ✔✔When examining the color and clarity of 20 milliliters of a
liquid, which of the following would be the most appropriate substitute for a test tube?
✔✔when the bob is at the top of the arc - ✔✔A pendulum bob swings back and forth.
When does the bob have its greatest potential energy?
✔✔understanding the evolution of the solar system - ✔✔Which of the following is the
most important rationale for the scientific study of Mars?
✔✔chloroplast - ✔✔Which of the following structures is present in plant cells but not in
animal cells?
