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Jefferson County Schools Science The Terra Nova, Second Edition (CAT/6) is a comprehensive, modular assessment series, offering multiple measures of student achievement in science. Chemistry I Chemistry I is a course that explores the properties of substances and the changes that substances undergo. |
| Physical Science |
| The Physical Science unit includes concepts related to matter, forces, motion, and energy, as well as their interactions. Topics include chemical and physical changes, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, sound, machines, work and power. |
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Electrons: Illustrate/Ground/Excited
The learner will be able to illustrate an electron moving from a ground state to an excited state, using the Bohr model, and/or portray energy emission as it returns from an excited state to a lower energy state.
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Laboratory Skills: Chemistry/Examine
The learner will be able to examine data by calculating percent error.
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Substances: Recognize/Element/Compound
The learner will be able to recognize a pure substance as an element or compound when provided with its chemical name or formula.
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Atoms: Recognize/Protons/Electrons/Mass
The learner will be able to recognize protons, neutrons, and electrons with respect to their relative mass, relative charge, and location in an atom.
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Atoms: Explore/Structure
The learner will be able to explore the structure of the atom.
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Atoms: Explore/Chemical/Bonding
The learner will be able to explore chemical bonding.
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Atoms: Justify/Exists/Laws/Conservation
The learner will be able to justify that atoms exist using the laws of definite composition, conservation of matter, and multiple proportion.
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Matter: Comprehend/Conservation/Data
The learner will be able to comprehend the law of conservation of matter when provided with experimental data.
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Matter: Analyze/Interacts
The learner will be able to analyze how matter interacts.
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Chemical Reactions: Recognize/Equation
The learner will be able to recognize the reactants and products in a chemical reaction when provided with a balanced equation.
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Chemical Reactions: Describe/Equation
The learner will be able to describe the differences among composition, decomposition, double replacement, and single replacement reactions when provided with a balanced equation.
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Chemical Reactions: Formulas/Write
The learner will be able to write formulas for compounds using the name of the compound.
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Chemical Reactions: Establish/Number
The learner will be able to establish the number of atoms, formula units, or molecules of a particular substance when provided with a balanced equation.
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Chemical Reactions: Study/Substances
The learner will be able to study chemical reactions between substances.
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Chemical Reactions: Predict/Products
The learner will be able to predict the products of a single or double replacement reaction when provided with an activity series and a solubility chart.
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Chemical Reactions: Find/Actual/Yield
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences between actual yield and theoretical yield.
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Chemistry: Differentiate/Symbol/Formula
The learner will be able to differentiate between a chemical symbol and chemical formula when provided with examples.
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Chemical & Physical Changes: Categor
The learner will be able to categorize changes in matter as physical or chemical when provided with examples or scenarios.
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Energy: Matter/Explore/Interaction
The learner will be able to explore the interaction of matter and energy.
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Elements: Structure of Atoms
The learner will be able to explore the properties of elements as they relate to the structure of the atom.
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Nuclear Reactions: Write/Alpha/Beta
The learner will be able to write the nuclear equation involving alpha or beta particles when provided with the mass of the parent isotope and complete symbols for alpha and beta emissions.
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Chemical Compounds: Recognize/Formula
The learner will be able to recognize the formula for a compound using a periodic table and a list of common ions when provided with the compound's name.
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Chemical Compounds: Recognize/Name
The learner will be able to recognize the name of compounds using a periodic table and list of common ions.
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Chemical Compounds: Write/Names/Stock
The learner will be able to write the names of compounds when provided with the formulas using the stock system.
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Chemical Compounds: Establish/Percent
The learner will be able to establish the empirical or molecular formula of an unknown substance using percent composition.
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Chemical Compounds: Differentiate/Ionic
The learner will be able to differentiate between ionic and covalent compounds when provided with binary formulas.
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Chemical Compounds: Examine/Percent
The learner will be able to examine the percent composition of the elements in a compound when provided with the formula.
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Gases: Predict/Affected/Altered/Scenario
The learner will be able to predict how the volume, temperature, or pressure of a gas is affected when another gas variable is altered when provided with a scenario.
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Solubility: Show/Factors/Impact/Rate
The learner will be able to show the factors that impact the rate a solute dissolves.
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Careers: Study/Matter/Energy
The learner will be able to study careers related to matter and energy.
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Careers: Study/Interactions/Matter
The learner will be able to study careers that are associated with the interactions of matter.
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Careers: Study/Structure/Atoms
The learner will be able to study careers related to the structure of atoms.
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Careers: Study/Related/Solutions
The learner will be able to study careers that are related to solutions.
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States of Matter: Differentiate/Spacing
The learner will be able to differentiate among the three states of matter in terms of spacing between particles and relative movement of particles, when provided with a diagram or scenario.
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Energy: Conservation/Comprehend
The learner will be able to comprehend the law of conservation of energy by equating heat loss and heat gain in an interaction when provided with the specific heat and the formulas -q=q and q=mcD.
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Scientists: Identify/Names/Contributions
The learner will be able to identify the names and main contributions of famous scientists, including Neils Bohr, James Chadwick, John Dalton, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, and J.J. Thomson.
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Periodic Table: Recognize/Number/Name
The learner will be able to recognize an element's atomic number, name, and symbol utilizing the periodic table and when provided with the number of protons and electrons in a neutral atom.
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Periodic Table: Explain/Trends/Size
The learner will be able to explain the periodic table trends regarding atomic size, ionization energy, electron affinity, or electronegativity.
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Periodic Table: Order/Major/Groups
The learner will be able to order atoms from the major groups of elements based on atomic radii.
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Periodic Table: Establish/Protons/Ion
The learner will be able to establish the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in an atom or ion when provided with the atom or ion's symbol and the periodic table.
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Periodic Table: Explore/Order/Number
The learner will be able to explore the order of the periodic table, including atomic number and the atom's characteristics.
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Periodic Table: Classify/Metals/Noble
The learner will be able to classify elements as metals, nonmetals, metalloids, or noble gases based on their locations in the periodic table.
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Electrons: Write/Arrangement/Notations
The learner will be able to write the electron arrangement using the following notations: orbital, electron configuration, and electron-dot.
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Electrons: Describe/Paragraph
The learner will be able to describe in a paragraph why certain elements do not have the predicted electron configuration.
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Electrons: Establish/Lewis/Valence/Group
The learner will be able to establish the Lewis dot structure or number of valence electrons from an atom of any major group when provided with its atomic number or its location in the periodic table.
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Electrons: Establish/Configuration
The learner will be able to establish quantum numbers for elements when provided with the electron configuration.
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Electrons: Associate/Spectral/Emission
The learner will be able to associate the spectral lines of an atom's emission spectrum to the transition of electrons between various energy levels within an atom.
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Electrons: Find/Orbitals/Shape/Energy
The learner will be able to find similarities between s and p orbitals in an energy level in terms of general shape, energy, and/or numbers of electrons possible.
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Electrons: Find/Orbitals/Shape/Energy
The learner will be able to find similarities between s, p, d and f orbitals in an energy level in terms of general shape, energy, or numbers of electrons possible.
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Acids: Recognize/Name/Periodic/Ions
The learner will be able to recognize the name of common acids using a periodic table and list of common ions.
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Chemical & Physical Properties: Sort
The learner will be able to sort characteristics of matter as physical or chemical when provided with examples or scenarios.
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Solutions: Recognize/Solute/Solvent
The learner will be able to recognize the solute and solvent in a liquid, solid, or gaseous solution when provided with its composition.
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Solutions: Explain/Dilute/Concentrated
The learner will be able to explain how to create a dilute solution from a concentrated solution of known molarity.
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Solutions: Compute/Concentration/Mass
The learner will be able to compute the concentration of a solution in terms of molarity or mass percent when provided with the mass of the solute and mass or volume of the solution.
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Solutions: Compute/Molarity
The learner will be able to compute the molarity of solutions.
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Solutions: Explore/Properties
The learner will be able to explore the properties of solutions.
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Solutions: Explore/Properties/Acids
The learner will be able to explore the properties of solutions paying special attention to acids and bases.
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Solutions: Categorize/Saturated/Graph
The learner will be able to categorize a solution as saturated, unsaturated, or supersaturated when provided with the solution's composition and a solubility graph.
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Solutions: Explore/Colligative
The learner will be able to explore the colligative properties of solutions.
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Equations: Identify/Balanced/Word
The learner will be able to identify a balanced chemical equation using proper symbols when provided with a word equation.
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Equations: Implement/Mathematics
The learner will be able to implement the mathematics of chemical formulas and equations.
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Equations: Choose/Balanced/Examples
The learner will be able to choose a chemical equation that is correctly balanced when provided with examples.
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Equations: Categorize/Type/Reaction
The learner will be able to categorize chemical equations by type when provided with a written explanation of a reaction.
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Molecules: Illustrate/Shapes/Label
The learner will be able to illustrate molecular shapes and label bond angles, bond polarity, and molecular polarity when provided with a formula.
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Acids and Bases: Comprehend/Titration
The learner will be able to comprehend neutralization reactions by conducting a titration.
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Acids and Bases: Indicator/Establish
The learner will be able to establish whether a substance is an acid or a base using an indicator.
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Acids and Bases: Conduct/Neutralization
The learner will be able to conduct a neutralization reaction.
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Acids and Bases: Explore/Properties
The learner will be able to explore the properties of acids and bases.
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Acids and Bases: Categorize/Formula
The learner will be able to categorize substances as acid or bases when provided with the formula.
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Acids and Bases: Categorize/Substance
The learner will be able to categorize a substance as an acid or base when provided with it characteristics.
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Acids and Bases: Predict/Neutralization
The learner will be able to predict the products of a neutralization reaction that includes inorganic acids and bases when provided with the reactants.
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Acids and Bases: Categorize/Neutral/Ion
The learner will be able to categorize a solution as acidic, basic, or neutral when provided with the hydrogen or hydroxide ion concentration.
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Stoichiometric Relationships: Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize various kinds of stoichiometry problems.
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Stoichiometric Relationships: Convert
The learner will be able to convert between two of the listed quantities: mass, number of moles, number of particles, molar volume.
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Stoichiometric Relationships: Solve/Mass
The learner will be able to solve stoichiometric problems that are mass to mass.
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Stoichiometric Relationships: Solve
The learner will be able to solve various kinds of stoichiometry problems.
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Stoichiometric Relationships: Predict
The learner will be able to predict the amount of product when provided with the mole or mass amounts of reactants in an experiment.
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pH: Compute/Ion/Concentration
The learner will be able to compute the pH of a solution when provided with the hydrogen or hydroxide ion concentration.
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Equations: Balanced/Write/Chemical
The learner will be able to write balanced chemical equations.
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Gases, Liquids, Solids: Find/Density
The learner will be able to find the density of solids and liquids.
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Gases, Liquids, Solids: Measure/Mass
The learner will be able to measure the mass and volume of solids and liquids with the proper equipment, methods, and units.
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Electromagnetic Waves: Compute/Photon
The learner will be able to compute the frequency, wavelength, and energy of a photon of electromagnetic radiation when provided with the formula and constants.
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Atoms: Nucleus/Recognize/Protons
The learner will be able to recognize an isotope when provided with the number of protons and neutrons.
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Atoms: Nucleus/Explore/Makeup/Isotopes
The learner will be able to explore the makeup of the nucleus to describe isotopes and nuclear reactions.
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Atom: Nucleus/Justify/Quarks/Charges
The learner will be able to justify the combination of quarks that make protons and neutrons when provided with the up and down quark charges.
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Chemical Reactions: Energy/Classify
The learner will be able to classify a reaction as exothermic or endothermic when provided with an example or scenario.
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Elements: Isotopes/Compute/Mass/Percent
The learner will be able to compute the average atomic mass of an element from the percent distribution and masses of isotopes.
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Atoms: Models/Recognize/Properties
The learner will be able to recognize the main properties of different atomic models, including Democritus, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, and the modern quantum mechanical model.
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Atoms: Models/Explain/Electron/Orbital
The learner will be able to explain atomic models in terms of orbitals, electron configurations, orbital notation, quantum numbers, and electron dot structure.
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Atoms: Models/Explain/Bohr/Quantum
The learner will be able to explain how the Bohr model and the quantum mechanical electron-cloud model are different.
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Atoms: Models/Illustrate/Bohr/Eighteen
The learner will be able to illustrate Bohr models for the first eighteen elements.
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Atoms: Models/Illustrate/Ionic/Covalent
The learner will be able to illustrate models of atoms that have ionic or covalent bonds.
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Atoms: Models/Find/History/Greeks/Cloud
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences among the different atomic models as they arose in history, from the Greeks to the modern electron-cloud model.
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Heat: Temperature/Read/Thermometer
The learner will be able to read a thermometer to accurately determine the temperature.
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Heat: Temperature/Conversion
The learner will be able to make conversions between the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.
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Heat: Temperature/Estimate/Celsius
The learner will be able to estimate Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures that are equal.
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Heat: Temperature/Differentiate/Unit
The learner will be able to differentiate between heat content and temperature when provided with a unit, definition, or example.
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Matter: Properties/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate properties of matter.
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Matter: Properties/Differentiate/Colloid
The learner will be able to differentiate among an element, compound, solution, colloid, and suspension when provided with examples.
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Ion: Describe/Anions/Cations/Formed
The learner will be able to describe how anions and cations are formed.
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Ion: Predict/Charge/Major/Group/Elements
The learner will be able to predict the ionic charge of an ion normally formed by the major groups of elements, using the periodic table.
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Mole: Establish/Ratios/Balanced
The learner will be able to establish mole ratios represented in balanced chemical equations.
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Mole: Compute/Substance's/Mass
The learner will be able to compute a substance's molar mass.
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Mole: Measure/Substance's/Mass
The learner will be able to measure a substance's molar mass.
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Mole: Associate/Mass/Substance/Particles
The learner will be able to associate the molar mass of a substance to the number of particles.
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Metals: Recognize/Specific/Heat
The learner will be able to recognize an unknown metal by establishing its specific heat and using a calorimeter.
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| Research and Inquiry |
| The Research and Inquiry unit focuses on the knowledge, processes, and real world issues associated with science and technology. Topics include experimentation, data analysis, science related careers, and technological advances. |
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Data: Differentiate/Accuracy/Precision
The learner will be able to differentiate between accuracy and precision.
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Problem Solving: Designate/Proportional
The learner will be able to designate a relationship between two variables as directly or inversely proportional.
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Problem Solving: Utilize/Convert
The learner will be able to utilize conversion factors, dimensional analysis, ratios, and proportions to convert between quantities.
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Measurement: Document/Significant
The learner will be able to document measurements using the proper number of significant figures.
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Measurement: Significant Figures
The learner will be able to use the correct number of significant figures in the solutions to problems.
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Math Skills: Scientific Notation/Use
The learner will be able to use scientific notation to perform operations.
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Math Skills: Utilize/Scientific Notation
The learner will be able to utilize scientific notation to represent very large and very small numbers.
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Data: Organization/Formulate/Tables
The learner will be able to formulate tables and graphs from experimental data.
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Data: Quality/Evaluate/Approve/Reject
The learner will be able to utilize the accuracy and precision of data to evaluate whether to approve or reject any given piece of data.
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