| Curricular Competency |
Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications |
Chemistry 12 |
Applying and innovating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches |
Chemistry 12 |
Applying and innovating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Applying and innovating |
Chemistry 12 |
Applying and innovating |
| Keyword: Applying and innovating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunity to support student inquiry:Investigate how green chemistry is used to reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in commercial chemical processes (e.g., production of pharmaceuticals, paints, plastics). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility |
Chemistry 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 |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations |
Chemistry 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 |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Connect scientific explorations to careers in science |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed |
Chemistry 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 |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data |
Chemistry 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 |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluating |
Chemistry 12 |
Evaluating |
| Keyword: Evaluating |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:Explore variables and assumptions (e.g., cost, demand, location, environmental considerations) to evaluate the feasibility of bringing a chemical industrial process to your local area.Explore chemistry-related careers (e.g., chemical engineer, clinical biochemist, pharmacologist, environmental consultant, patent attorney, science writer). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships |
Chemistry 12 |
Processing and analyzing data and information |
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