Inquiry skills will be assessed only in the context of physical, Earth/space, and life sciences content.

Academic Expectation:  2.1 Scientific Ways of Thinking and Working

Students Will

• I-1 refine and refocus questions that can be answered through scientific investigation combined with scientific information.
• I-2 use appropriate equipment, tools, techniques, technology, and mathematics to gather, analyze, and interpret scientific data.
• I-3 use evidence (e.g., computer models), logic, and scientific knowledge to develop scientific explanations.
• I-4 design and conduct scientific investigations.
• I-5 communicate (e.g., write, graph) designs, procedures, observations, and results of scientific investigations.
• I-6 review and analyze scientific investigations and explanations of other students.

Application/Connection skills will be assessed only in the context of Physical, Earth/space, and Life Sciences content

Academic Expectations:  2.2 Patterns of Change, 2.3 Systems, 2.4 Scale and Models, 2.5 Constancy, and 2.6 Change Over Time

Science and Technology

• AC-1 Students will describe how science helps drive technology and technology helps drive science.  Because perfectly designed solutions do not exist, technological solutions have intended benefits and unintended consequences.

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

• AC-2 Students will describe the individual’s roles and responsibilities in the following areas:  changes in populations, resources and environments including ecological crises and environmental issues, natural hazards, science and technology in society, and personal and societal issues about risks and benefits.

History and Nature of Science

• AC-3 Students will demonstrate the role science plays in everyday life:  past, present, and future.  Science in a human endeavor.  Men and women of various social and ethnic backgrounds engage in activities of science (to include careers in science).  Scientists formulate and test their explanations of nature using observations, experiments, and theoretical and mathematical models.  It is part of scientific inquiry to evaluate the results of scientific investigations, experiments, observations, theoretical models, and the explanations proposed by other scientists.