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LA.910.2.2.3:
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The student will organize information to show understanding or relationships among facts, ideas, and events (e.g., representing key points within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing, contrasting, or outlining);
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LA.910.4.2.2:
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The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information;
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MA.912.S.1.2:
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Determine appropriate and consistent standards of measurement for the data to be collected in a survey or experiment.
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Moderate
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MA.912.S.3.2:
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Collect, organize, and analyze data sets, determine the best format for the data and present visual summaries from the following:
bar$graph s line$graph s stem and leaf plots circle$graph s histograms box and whisker plots scatter$plot s cumulative frequency (ogive) graphs
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High
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SC.912.E.5.1:
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Cite evidence used to develop and verify the scientific theory of the Big Bang (also known as the big bang theory ) of the origin of the universe.
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High
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SC.912.E.5.6:
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Develop logical connections through physical principles, including Kepler's and Newton's laws about the relationships and the effects of Earth, moon, and sun on each other.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.11:
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Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable$resource s, such as water, energy, fossil fuels, wildlife, and forests.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.15:
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Discuss the effects of technology on environmental quality.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.12:
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Discuss the special properties of water that contribute to Earth's suitability as an environment for life: cohesive behavior, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.1:
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Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following:
- pose questions about the natural world,
- conduct systematic observations,
- examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known,
- review what is known in light of empirical evidence,
- plan investigations,
- use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs),
- pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events,
- generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences),
- use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others,
- communicate results of scientific investigations, and
- evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.2:
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Describe and explain what characterizes science and its methods.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.3:
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Recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is evaluated through scientific argumentation, which depends on critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain the data presented.
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Low
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SC.912.N.1.4:
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Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.5:
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Describe and provide examples of how similar investigations conducted in many parts of the world result in the same outcome.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.6:
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Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.7:
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Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.
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Low
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SC.912.N.2.1:
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Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
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High
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SC.912.N.2.2:
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Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
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High
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SC.912.N.2.3:
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Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
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Low
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SC.912.N.2.4:
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Explain that scientific knowledge is both durable and robust and open to change. Scientific knowledge can change because it is often examined and re-examined by new investigations and scientific argumentation. Because of these frequent examinations, scientific knowledge becomes stronger, leading to its durability.
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High
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SC.912.N.2.5:
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Describe instances in which scientists' varied backgrounds, talents, interests, and goals influence the inferences and thus the explanations that they make about observations of natural phenomena and describe that competing interpretations (explanations) of scientists are a strength of science as they are a source of new, testable ideas that have the potential to add new evidence to support one or another of the explanations.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.1:
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Explain that a scientific theory is the culmination of many scientific investigations drawing together all the current evidence concerning a substantial range of phenomena; thus, a scientific theory represents the most powerful explanation scientists have to offer.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.2:
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Describe the role consensus plays in the historical development of a theory in any one of the disciplines of science.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.3:
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Explain that scientific laws are descriptions of specific relationships under given conditions in nature, but do not offer explanations for those relationships.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.4:
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Recognize that theories do not become laws, nor do laws become theories; theories are well supported explanations and laws are well supported descriptions.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.5:
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Describe the function of models in science, and identify the wide range of models used in science.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.4.1:
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Explain how scientific knowledge and reasoning provide an empirically-based perspective to inform society's decision making.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.4.2:
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Weigh the merits of alternative strategies for solving a specific societal problem by comparing a number of different costs and benefits, such as human, economic, and environmental.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.1:
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Differentiate among the four states of matter.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.3:
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Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing changes in the atomic model over time and why those changes were necessitated by experimental evidence.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.4:
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Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing the structure of atoms in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons, and differentiate among these particles in terms of their mass, electrical charges and locations within the atom.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.1:
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Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form to others.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.2:
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Explore the law of Conservation of energy by differentiating among open, closed, and isolated systems and explain that the total energy in an isolated system is a conserved quantity.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.3:
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Compare and contrast work and power qualitatively and quantitatively.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.4:
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Describe heat as the energy transferred by convection, conduction, and radiation, and explain the connection of heat to change in temperature or states of matter.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.5:
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Relate temperature to the average molecular kinetic energy.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.9:
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Describe the quantization of energy at the atomic level.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.10:
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Compare the magnitude and range of the four fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear).
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.13:
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Relate the configuration of static charges to the electric field , electric force, electric potential , and electric potential energy.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.14:
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Differentiate among conductors, semiconductors, and insulators.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.15:
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Investigate and explain the relationships among current, voltage, resistance, and power.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.18:
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Explore the theory of electromagnetism by comparing and contrasting the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength, frequency, and energy, and relate them to phenomena and applications.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.20:
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Describe the measurable properties of waves and explain the relationships among them and how these properties change when the wave moves from one medium to another.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.21:
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Qualitatively describe the shift in frequency in sound or electromagnetic waves due to the relative motion of a source or a receiver.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.22:
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Construct ray diagrams and use thin lens and mirror equations to locate the images formed by lenses and mirrors.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.1:
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Distinguish between scalar and vector quantities and assess which should be used to describe an event.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.2:
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Analyze the motion of an object in terms of its position, velocity, and acceleration (with respect to a frame of reference ) as functions of time.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.3:
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Interpret and apply Newton's three laws of motion.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.4:
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Describe how the gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses and the distance between them.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.12.5:
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Apply the law of conservation of linear momentum to interactions, such as collisions between objects.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.7:
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Recognize that nothing travels faster than the speed of light in vacuum which is the same for all observers no matter how they or the light source are moving.
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Low
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SC.912.P.12.8:
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Recognize that Newton's laws are a limiting case of Einstein's special theory of relativity at speeds that are much smaller than the speed of light.
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Low
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SC.912.P.12.9:
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Recognize that time, length, and energy depend on the frame of reference .
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Low
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SC.912.P.12.10:
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Interpret the behavior of ideal gases in terms of kinetic molecular theory.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.11:
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Describe phase transitions in terms of kinetic molecular theory.
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Moderate
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