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 Competency Goals:: 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
Objectives:
1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations. 1.02: Develop appropriate experimental procedures for:
   Given questions.
   Student generated questions. 1.03: Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies:
   Recognize potential hazards.
   Manipulate materials and equipment.
   Conduct appropriate procedures. 1.04: Analyze variables in scientific investigations:
   Identify dependent and independent.
   Use of a control.
   Manipulate.
   Describe relationships between.
   Define operationally. 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
   Explain observations.
   Make inferences and predictions.
   Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation. 1.06: Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present quantitative data resulting from scientific investigations:
   Measurement.
   Analysis of data.
   Graphing.
   Prediction models. 1.07: Prepare models and/or computer simulations to:
   Test hypotheses.
   Evaluate how data fit. 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
   Communicate findings.
   Defend conclusions of scientific investigations. 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
   Research.
   Gather and analyze data.
   Visualize data.
   Disseminate findings to others. 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
   Scientific text.
   Articles.
   Events in the popular press.