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Students will design and conduct scientific investigations
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific
investigations
- Use appropriate tools, technology, and techniques to gather,
analyze, and interpret data
- Organize and maintain a journal showing all phases of investigations
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence and logic
- Use mathematics to explain, interpret, and improve investigations
and communications
- Construct logical relationships between evidence and explanations
- Identify and analyze alternative explanations, models, and
predictions
- Demonstrate understanding about scientific inquiry
- Use fair test procedures
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Students will communicate scientific procedures and
explanations
- Demonstrate effective methods to organize and display scientific
concepts
- Present investigative procedures and results to others verbally,
graphically, and in writing
- Communicate science concepts accurately and clearly, using
scientific vocabulary
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Students will understand the structure of atoms
- Identify and compare the parts of an atom
- Describe the properties of an atom in terms of its constituent
parts
- Explain how half-life and radioactive decay is used to estimate
age
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Students will understand the structure and properties
of matter
- Describe how electrons govern chemical properties
- Determine chemical and physical properties using the number
of electrons and protons
- Use the patterns and trends found in the periodic table to
make predictions about chemical and physical properties
- Relate the physical properties of elements and compounds
to specific interactions among ions, atoms, and molecules
- Compare states of matter (examples: solids, liquids, gases,
and plasma)
- Investigate the variables affecting the states of matter
- Relate properties and behavior of carbon compounds to molecular
structure
- Differentiate between the four major classes of organic compounds
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Students will explain the conservation of energy and
the increase in disorder
- Demonstrate energy conservation in chemical reactions
- Evaluate the use of alternate forms of energy
- Describe how chemical reactions release and consume energy
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Students will understand the interactions of energy
and matter
- Differentiate between heat and temperature
- Associate electromagnetic waves to the transfer of energy
- Compare the properties and conditions of materials that behave
as conductors and insulators
- Provide examples of chemical reactions from everyday life
- Explain the concept of acids and bases, moles, equilibrium,
kinetics and bonding
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Students will compare forms of energy found in the Earth
- Describe how humans use the different forms of energy found
in the Earth
- Determine how local and global chemical usage effect environmental
change
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Students will investigate geochemical cycles
- Explain the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles
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Students will practice safety and personal health
- Model appropriate laboratory techniques, procedures, and
behaviors
- Use standard laboratory techniques to evaluate the relative
abundance of beneficial and harmful chemicals in foods and drugs
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Students will participate in conserving natural resources
- Examine how chemical resources are used and misused in the
environment
- Compare renewable and non-renewable resources (example: production
of plastics and oils from
petroleum versus plant products)
- Demonstrate the value of reducing, recycling, and reusing
resources
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Students will describe factors that influence environmental
quality
- Evaluate factors influencing environmental quality (examples:
resource use, over consumption, capacity of technology to solve
problems, acid rain, greenhouse effect, photochemical smog, fossil
fuels, and hydrocarbons)
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Students will understand the dangers associated with
human-induced hazards
- Relate storage and disposal of hazardous wastes to the protection
of the environment
- Evaluate how human activities enhance the potential for hazards
(examples:
pesticide/herbicide/fertilizer use, fossil fuels, erosion,
sedimentation, and soil waste)
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