Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

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Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

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Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

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Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:

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Experience and interpret the local environment

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Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

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Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies

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Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

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Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evide

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Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

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Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

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Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data

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Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

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Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources

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Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

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Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

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Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations and to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

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Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others investigations

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Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

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Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

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

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Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

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

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

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Consider the role of scientists in innovation

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Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

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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

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

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reaction rate

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collision theory

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energy change during a chemical reaction

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reaction mechanism

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catalysts