GLE Glossary
Organisms
These are vocabulary words that are seen and discussed throughout the Organisms kit. It is important that students understand what these words refer to, and that they hear them being used. These are the words that will appear on the Science WASL most frequently, as taken from the 2003 edition of the General Characteristics of the Science WASL produced by the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The words in bold are crucial words that will be in the unit’s word banks at the end of each investigation. Words listed below that are not in bold are words that appear on the WASL, but are not identified as vocabulary words by the unit’s authors.
Words listed in the unit’s word banks, but that are not listed below, are important to discuss and be aware of, but students are not expected to know those words for the science WASL.
The following terms are a summary of the vocabulary that may be used on the Science WASL without definitions. More terms may be used with definitions or examples as noted in the Item Specifications (available from OSPI). The plural form of all these words is assumed useable. However, other forms of these words are not accepted unless specified.
Terms that build through the grade levels are listed below, and appear in the Science WASL, with the higher grade term in parenthesis.
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