| Curricular Competency |
Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches |
Physics 12 |
Applying and innovating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Applying and innovating |
Physics 12 |
Applying and innovating |
| Keyword: Applying and innovating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:Co-operatively design a waterwheel to contribute to aeration of a local waterway.Why are roads designed with banked curves?Apply static equilibrium to design and build a deadfall trap that could be used in a survival situation.How did the discovery of the electron and the development of the cathode ray tube (CRT) form the basis of new technologies (e.g., particle accelerators, smartphones)?Investigate methods of providing inexpensive and easily available electricity to rural areas or as part of disaster relief.Collaboratively generate possible prevention methods for common sports injuries based on an understanding of force, momentum, and impulse.How do G-suits save pilots’ lives? |
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| Curricular Competency |
Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility |
Physics 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 |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations |
Physics 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 |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Connect scientific explorations to careers in science |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed |
Physics 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 |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data |
Physics 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 |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluating |
Physics 12 |
Evaluating |
| Keyword: Evaluating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:Identify sources of random and systematic error in lab experiments.Compare an experimental result with a theoretical result and calculate % error or difference and suggest an explanation for any discrepancies.Evaluate the validity of the representation of special relativity in science fiction movies.Critically analyze the findings that suggest the existence of gravitational waves.What are the social, ethical, and environmental implications of the application of electromagnetic induction technologies (e.g., magnetic levitation [mag-lev] trains, hydroelectric dams, high-voltage power lines)?Determine whether a collision is elastic or inelastic and identify ways of improving the quality of the data collected.Assess the safety features in vehicles designed to protect passengers during a collision. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships |
Physics 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 |
Physics 12 |
Processing and analyzing data and information |
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