| Curricular Competency |
Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches |
Environmental Science 12 |
Applying and innovating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Applying and innovating |
Environmental Science 12 |
Applying and innovating |
| Keyword: Applying and innovating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:Which bylaws would you recommend for your community to reduce greenhouse gas production?How could you establish a school or community garden?How could the design of packaging be improved to reduce the amount of waste generated?How do local trends in land use align with and respond to global climate change? |
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| Curricular Competency |
Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Connect scientific explorations to careers in science |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluating |
Environmental Science 12 |
Evaluating |
| Keyword: Evaluating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:What are the differences between anthropogenic and natural sources of CO2 emissions?How can community gardens reduce the ecological footprint of our diet?How can you make more sustainable choices to reduce the amount of waste you generate?How does traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) confirm what you can deduce from climate change data? |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships |
Environmental Science 12 |
Processing and analyzing data and information |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence |
Environmental Science 12 |
Processing and analyzing data and information |
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