Curricular Competancies
Questioning and predicting
• Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest
• Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world
• Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes
Planning and conducting
• Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)
• Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods
• Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data
• Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation
Processing and analysing data and information
• Experience and interpret the local environment
• Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information
• Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies
• Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams
• Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships
Evaluating
• Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions
• Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data
• Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
• Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources • Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
• Connect scientific explorations to careers in science • Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources
• Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations
• Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems
• Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility
• Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest
• Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world
• Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes
Planning and conducting
• Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)
• Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods
• Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data
• Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation
Processing and analysing data and information
• Experience and interpret the local environment
• Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information
• Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies
• Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams
• Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships
Evaluating
• Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions
• Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data
• Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
• Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources • Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
• Connect scientific explorations to careers in science • Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources
• Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations
• Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems
• Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility