1st+Nine+Weeks+Standard+Course+of+Study+Objectives

1st Nine Weeks Standard Course of Study Objectives -These objectives are created by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and were taken from the following web site: []  || Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations. ||  · Conduct appropriate procedures. || 1.10 || Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing and/or viewing:
 * Objective || Goals  ||
 * 1.01
 * 1.02 || Develop appropriate experimental procedures for student and teacher generated questions.  ||
 * 1.03 || Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in the field studies:
 * Recognize potential hazards.
 * Safely manipulate materials and equipment.
 * 1.04 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Analyze variables in scientific investigations:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify dependent and independent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use of control.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Manipulate.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Describe relationships between.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Define operationally. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.05 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Analyze evidence to:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explain observations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make inferences and predictions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.06 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present quantitative data resulting from scientific investigations:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Measurement.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Analysis of data.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Graphing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Prediction models. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.08 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use oral and written language to:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Communicate findings.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Defend conclusions of scientific investigations. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1.09 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use technologies and information systems to
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gather and analyze data.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Visualize data.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Disseminate finding to others. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scientific text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Articles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Events in the popular press ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.02 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Describe properties that can be observed and measured to predict air quality
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Particulate matter.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ozone. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.03 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conclude that the good health of environments and organisms requires:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The monitoring of air quality.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Taking steps to maintain healthy air quality.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Stewardship. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.04 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Evaluate how humans impact air quality including:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Air quality standards.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Point and non-point sources of air pollution in North Carolina.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Financial and economic trade-offs.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Local air quality issues. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.05 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Examine evidence that atmospheric properties can be studied to predict atmospheric conditions and weather hazards.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Wind speed and direction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Temperature Humidity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Air pressure Precipitation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tornados Hurricanes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Floods Storms ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.06 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assess the use of technology in studying atmospheric phenomena and weather hazards:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Satellites.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Weather maps.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Predicting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Recording.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Communicating information about conditions. ||