| 5.1 |
All students learn to identify systems
of interacting components and understand how their interactions
combine to produce the overall behavior of the system. |
| 5.2 |
All students will develop problem--solving,
decision-making and inquiry skills reflected by formulating usable
questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic
observations , interpreting and analyzing data , drawing conclusions,
and communicating results. |
| 5.3 |
All students will develop an understanding
of how people of various cultures have contributed to the advancement
of science and technology, and how major discoveries and events
have advanced science and technology |
| 5.4 |
All students will develop an understanding
of technology as an application of scientific principles. |
| 5.5 |
All students will integrate mathematics
as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing
and/or modeling scientific theories. |
| 5.6 |
All students will gain an understanding
of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms. |
| 5.7 |
All students will investigate the
diversity of life. |
| 5.8 |
All students will gain an understanding
of the structure and behavior of matter. |
| 5.9 |
All students wiIl gain an understanding
of natural laws as they apply to motion, forces, and energy transformations. |
| 5.10 |
All students will gain an understanding
of the structure, dynamics, and geophysical systems of the earth. |
| 5.11 |
All students will gain an understanding
of the origin, evolution, and structure of the universe. |
| 5.12 |
All students will develop an understanding
of the environment as a system of interdependent components affected
by human activity and natural phenomena. |