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Learners will develop a deeper understanding of
- Great apes including their cognition and communication
- How each person’s decisions impact the earth and its inhabitants
- What is needed to protect endangered species and sustain the planet
- The work of scientists and scientific methods
MATH
Data Analysis and Probability
Data Display
- Construct various tables and graphs
Statistical Methods
- Draw inferences and conclusions from charts, tables, and graphs
- Calculate mean, median, mode, and range of collected or given data
Probability
- Identify dependent and independent events
- Predict and record the probability of an event and display as a fraction, percent, and/or decimal
Measurement
Applications of Measurement
- Estimate and measure length, mass, and capacity using customary and metric units
Numbers and Operations
Computation and Estimation
- Estimate and solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of rational numbers
Numbers, Properties, and Representations
- Represent and evaluate relationships using ratios, proportions, and percents
- Round rational numbers to a given place value
INFORMATION LITERACY
Access to Information
- Use search and navigational features of print and electronic resources to efficiently access information
- Extract relevant and essential information
Critical and Competent Evaluation of Information
- Examine and evaluate information prior to use
Accurate, Ethical, and Creative Uses of Information
- Use note taking to summarize information gathered
- Create and effectively communicate information and ideas to others
- Understand the concept of plagiarism and cite sources properly
- Organize and synthesize information from multiple sources
SCIENCE
History and Nature of Science
Science Connections and Applications
- Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative observations and data
- Organize data into graphs and tables
- Use mathematics properly, utilizing metric measurements in all quantitative activities
- Identify examples of the following: investigative question, observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, cause, effect, variable, opinion, inference, prediction, operational definition, and model
- Evaluate the validity of conclusions created by others, using scientific reasoning
- Design and conduct a simple experiment to test student generated hypothesis, appropriately manipulating the controls and variables
- Interpret graphs and tables of data
- Identify that systems thinking means looking for how every part relates to others
- Explain that parts of a system can sometimes counterbalance each other creating stability
Life Science
Biological Organization and Processes
- Compare the essential characteristics of living, nonliving, and dead things
- Explain the role of adaptation in species survival in particular habitats
- Determine under what conditions the extinction of a species is most likely to occur
Ecology
- Analyze how energy passes through food webs
- Describe the relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem
- Summarize how environment health and available natural resources impact the survival of a species
- List how matter is transferred and conserved in ecosystems through cycles
Earth Science
Earth History
- Analyze paleontological evidence to understand the evolution of the earth’s biodiversity
SOCIAL STUDIES
Research Skills
- Extract various opinions and information from primary source documents
- Debate issues
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
Participatory Citizenship
- Participate in a community service project
Economic Perspective
- Develop a budget given revenue and expense information
- Relate the effect of supply with demand and price
Map Skills
Historical Perspective-Cultural Interactions
- Compare ways ideas are proposed and decisions are made in a variety of settings
- Identify the way laws can be changed
- Analyze the conflict between individual liberties and the rights of others
READING
Vocabulary-Contextual Analysis
Comprehension
- Interpret content of informational text through use of text features, graphs, maps, pictures
Cognitive Strategies
- Construct connections between main ideas of a text and other sources and related topics
- Revise predictions when new information is gained
- Generate questions before, during, and after reading to confirm understanding
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