Curricular Competencies Content
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Questioning and predicting
• Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic
or problem of personal interest
• Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including
increasingly complex ones, about the natural world
• Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes
Planning and conducting
• Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate
investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments,
to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)
• Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues
associated with their proposed methods and those of others
• Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies,
to systematically and accurately collect and record data
• Ensure that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their investigations
Processing and analyzing data and information
• Experience and interpret the local environment
• Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways
of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information
• Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including
describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent)
and identifying inconsistencies