Mississippi Science FSL.3D.1

ScienceGrades 9–12Foundations of Science Literacy

The Standard

FSL.3D: Students will apply scientific literacy and thinking skills to evaluate theoretical models, inferences, and experimental results found in various experimental designs including, but not limited to, those found in sample ACT science passages.

Select the hypothesis, prediction, or conclusion that is, or is not, supported by data presentation or pieces of informational text.

2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Nature of Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare hypotheses, predictions, and conclusions with a graph, table, or short science passage. They choose which claims fit the evidence and point to the numbers or sentences that support their choice.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student picks the claim the evidence supports and explains why another claim goes too far. They can say a result supports a hypothesis without saying it proves it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may choose a claim because it sounds reasonable, even when the data disagrees. They may use one data point to claim a trend, overlook words like “all,” or treat a prediction as an observed result.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Two identical ice cubes melted in 5 minutes at 25°C and 12 minutes at 15°C. Which claim is supported, “The cube at 25°C melted faster” or “All ice melts in 5 minutes at 25°C”? Cite the times.

Lesson moves

Pour 10 mL of water onto each of two towel brands, collect the runoff, and choose which of two conclusions the measurements support.
Four sunny seedlings averaged 2 cm of growth, and four shaded seedlings averaged 1 cm; predict which group might grow more next week and explain why.
Show ice melting in 5 minutes at 25°C and 12 minutes at 15°C; teams sort “warmer was faster” and “all ice melts in 5 minutes.”
Print two cereal nutrition labels with equal serving sizes; students decide whether “less sugar” and “healthier” both follow from the listed sugar grams.

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