Objectives
1.01 Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
1.02 Develop appropriate experimental procedures for:
- Given questions.
- Student generated questions.
1.03 Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies:
- Recognize potential hazards.
- Manipulate materials and equipment.
- Conduct appropriate procedures.
1.04 Analyze variables in scientific investigations:
- Identify dependent and independent.
- Use of a control.
- Manipulate.
- Describe relationships between.
- Define operationally.
1.05 Analyze evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
1.06 Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present quantitative data resulting from scientific investigations:
- Measurement.
- Analysis of data.
- Graphing.
- Prediction models.
1.07 Prepare models and / or computer simulations to:
- Test hypotheses.
- Evaluate how data fit.
- Make predictions.
1.08 Use oral and written language to:
- Communicate findings.
- Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
- Describe strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, and / or data.
1.09 Use technologies and information systems to:
- Research.
- Gather and analyze data.
- Visualize data.
- Disseminate findings to others.
1.10 Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoit by reading, hearing, and / or viewing:
- Scientific text.
- Articles.
- Events in the popular press.
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