Students are expected to be able to do the following:

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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

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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 analyzing 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 their 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

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place