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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 graphs stem and leaf plots circle graph s histograms box and whisker plots scatter plots 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.5.2:
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Identify patterns in the organization and distribution of matter in the universe and the forces that determine them.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.5.3:
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Describe and predict how the initial mass of a star determines its evolution.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.5.4:
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Explain the physical properties of the Sun and its dynamic nature and connect them to conditions and events on Earth.
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High
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SC.912.E.5.5:
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Explain the formation of planetary systems based on our knowledge of our Solar System and apply this knowledge to newly discovered planetary systems.
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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.E.5.7:
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Relate the history of and explain the justification for future space exploration and continuing technology development.
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High
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SC.912.E.5.8:
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Connect the concepts of radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum to the use of historical and newly-developed observational tools.
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High
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SC.912.E.5.9:
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Analyze the broad effects of space exploration on the economy and culture of Florida.
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High
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SC.912.E.5.10:
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Describe and apply the coordinate system used to locate objects in the sky.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.5.11:
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Distinguish the various methods of measuring astronomical distances and apply each in appropriate situations.
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High
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SC.912.E.6.1:
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Describe and differentiate the layers of Earth and the interactions among them.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.6.2:
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Connect surface features to surface processes that are responsible for their formation.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.6.3:
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Analyze the scientific theory of plate tectonics and identify related major processes and features as a result of moving plates.
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High
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SC.912.E.6.4:
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Analyze how specific geologic processes and features are expressed in Florida and elsewhere.
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High
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SC.912.E.6.5:
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Describe the geologic development of the present day oceans and identify commonly found features.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.6.6:
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Analyze past, present, and potential future consequences to the environment resulting from various energy production technologies.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.1:
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Analyze the movement of matter and energy through the different biogeochemical cycle s, including water and carbon.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.2:
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Analyze the causes of the various kinds of surface and deep water motion within the oceans and their impacts on the transfer of energy between the poles and the equator.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.3:
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Differentiate and describe the various interactions among Earth systems, including: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.4:
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Summarize the conditions that contribute to the climate of a geographic area, including the relationships to lakes and oceans.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.7.5:
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Predict future weather conditions based on present observations and conceptual models and recognize limitations and uncertainties of such predictions.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.6:
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Relate the formation of severe weather to the various physical factors.
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Moderate
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SC.912.E.7.7:
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Identify, analyze, and relate the internal (Earth system) and external (astronomical) conditions that contribute to global climate change.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.8:
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Explain how various atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic conditions in Florida have influenced and can influence human behavior, both individually and collectively.
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High
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SC.912.E.7.9:
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Cite evidence that the ocean has had a significant influence on climate change by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, carbon, and water.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.1:
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Explain how the scientific theory of evolution is supported by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology, and observed evolutionary change.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.8:
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Describe the scientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.
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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.8.4:
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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.10.4:
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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.10.10:
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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.10.11:
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Explain and compare nuclear reaction s (radioactive decay, fission and fusion), the energy changes associated with them and their associated safety issues.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.16:
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Explain the relationship between moving charges and magnetic fields, as well as changing magnetic fields and electric field s, and their application to modern technologies.
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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.10.19:
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Explain that all objects emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation and distinguish between objects that are blackbody radiators and those that are not.
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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.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.12.4:
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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.12.7:
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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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