This document outlines the key steps of the scientific process including analyzing data, communicating findings, combining results with other studies, making claims about relationships between variables, using models to predict phenomena, generating investigable questions, and analyzing geoscience data to make claims about how changes to Earth's surface can impact other systems through feedbacks. It also discusses using maps to identify patterns as empirical evidence, employing systems models to predict behavior, and explaining stability and change by examining changes over time as they relate to Earth's systems, weather/climate, and the roles of water.

1. Analyzing your dataset1
Communicating your findings
Combining them with others
2
Making claims about
relationships
between variables
3
Using a model to
predict phenomena
4
Generating questions
that can be investigated
5
Analyze geoscience data to
make the claim that one change
to Earth's surface can create
feedbacks that cause changes to
other Earth systems.
Using maps to identify patterns;
Using patterns as empirical
evidence for causality
Using systems models
to predict behavior
Explaining
stability and
change by
examining
change over
time
Earth’s systems;
Weather and climate;
The roles of water