SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Use the methods of scientific inquiry to plan, conduct, draw conclusions, and evaluate scientific investigations.
• Build understanding of fundamental concepts of science by making connections between the various science disciplines.
• Conduct scientific investigations that lead to understandings of natural scientific processes.
• Observe, collect, organize, and evaluate scientific data.
• Improve scientific skills of observing, measuring, replicating experiments, manipulating equipment, and collecting and reporting data through engagement in laboratory activities and fieldwork.
• Study and learn about important historical and contemporary investigations and solutions that have led to new knowledge about the world around them.
• Convey scientific understandings to others in both a written and verbal form so as to effectively share scientific ideas relating to themselves and the world around them.
• Learn the fundamental concepts required for competency in various science disciplines.