Standards
All students must use these scientific processes with appropriate laboratory safety techniques to construct their knowledge and understanding in all science content areas.
Generate resourceIdentify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Generate resourceDesign and conduct scientific investigations using appropriate safety techniques.
Generate resourceUse appropriate mathematics, tools and techniques to gather data and information.
Generate resourceScience assumes the universe is a vast single system in which basic laws are consistent. Natural laws operate today as they did in the past and they will continue to do so in the future. Science is both a body of knowledge that represents a current understanding of natural systems and the processes used to refine, elaborate, revise and extend this knowledge.
Generate resourceScience is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
Generate resourceScience is a continual process and the body of scientific knowledge continues to grow and change.
Generate resourceScience assumes that objects and events occur in consistent patterns that are understandable through measurement and observation.
Generate resourceScience should carefully consider and evaluate all data including outliers.
Generate resourceScience disciplines share common rules for obtaining and evaluating empirical evidence.
Generate resourceScience has been, and continues to be, advanced by individuals of various races, genders, ethnicities, languages, abilities, family backgrounds and incomes.
Generate resourceIndividuals from different social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds work as scientists and engineers.
Generate resourceScientists and engineers are guided by habits of mind, such as intellectual honesty, tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism and openness to ideas.
Generate resourceScientists and engineers rely on human qualities such as persistence, precision, reasoning, logic, imagination and creativity.
Generate resourceScience is not static. Science is constantly changing as we acquire more knowledge.
Generate resourceScience explanations are subject to revision and improvement in light of additional scientific evidence or new understanding of scientific evidence.
Generate resourceThe composition and properties of Earth's interior are identified by the behavior of seismic waves.
Generate resourceEarth's lithosphere consists of major and minor tectonic plates that move relative to each other.
Generate resourceA combination of constructive and destructive geologic processes formed Earth's surface.
Generate resourceEvidence of the dynamic changes of Earth's surface through time is found in the geologic record.
Generate resourceDiversity of species, a result of variation of traits, occurs through the process of evolution and extinction over many generations. The fossil records provide evidence that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
Generate resourceEvery organism alive today comes from a long line of ancestors who reproduced successfully every generation.
Generate resourceThe characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s).
Generate resourceObjects can experience a force due to an external field such as magnetic, electrostatic, or gravitational fields.
Generate resourceExplain the difference between training and using a reasoning model to identify how a machine learns.
Generate resourceIllustrate how objects in an image can be segmented and labeled to construct a training set for object recognition.
Generate resourceExplain how the choice of training data shapes the behavior of the classifier to identify how bias can be introduced if the training set is not properly balanced.
Generate resourceCreate a program, individually and collaboratively, that implements a language processing algorithm to create a functional chatbot.
Generate resourceCritically analyze and discuss features that make an entity “intelligent,” including discussing differences between human, animal and machine intelligence to identify how machine intelligence varies from natural intelligence.
Generate resourceExplain how sounds and images are represented digitally in a computer to explain how sensor data is stored in a computer.
Generate resourceDescribe how a vision system might exhibit cultural bias if it lacked knowledge of objects not found in the culture of the people who created it to create inclusive and equitable data sets.
Generate resourceIllustrate how sequences of words can be recognized as phrases, even if some of the words are unclear, by looking at how the words fit together to create a text recognition program.
Generate resourceModel the process of solving a graph-search problem using breadth-first search to draw a search tree.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain how the composition of training data affects the outcome of a supervised artificial intelligence system to identify bias in data sets.
Generate resourceIdentify bias potential in the design of artificial intelligence systems and describe how to utilize inclusive AI design to prevent algorithmic bias.
Generate resourceCreate multiple pseudocode to solve a multi-step process and justify the most efficient solution.
Generate resourceDecompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation and review of complex programs.
Generate resourceWrite code that utilizes algorithms, variables and control structures to solve problems or as a creative expression.
Generate resourceEvaluate the advantages and limitations of existing computing devices to recommend design improvements based on analysis of how users interact with the device.
Generate resourceDesign projects that combine hardware and software components that could complete a task.
Generate resourceUse a systematic process to identify and evaluate the source of a routine computing problem. Select the best solution to solve the computing problem and communicate the solution to others.
Generate resourceInterpret digital data collection tools to manage information effectively.
Generate resourceCreate a logical file structure to organize data in different storage systems to support individual and collaborative work.
Generate resourceCreate and analyze models and simulations to accurately hypothesize a real-world situation.
Generate resourceCreate a spreadsheet utilizing formulas, functions and graphs to represent and analyze data.
Generate resourcePropose potential guidelines/standards/criteria to positively impact bias and accessibility in the design of future technologies.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impacts of electronic communication on personal relationships to be able to evaluate differences between face-to-face and electronic communication.
Generate resourceExplain user privacy concerns related to the collection and generation of data that may not be evident through automated processes.
Generate resourceDescribe the social and economic implications of privacy in the context of safety, law or ethics to be global digital citizens.
Generate resourceIdentify ethical and legal security measures used to protect electronic information.
Generate resourceProvide appropriate credit when using resources or artifacts that are not our own.
Generate resourceExplain how physical and digital security measures are used to protect electronic information.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the effects of different types of malware to determine strategies for how to protect devices.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast examples of various threat actors, such as nation-states, cyber terrorist groups, organized crime or hacktivists.
Generate resourceExplore and differentiate examples of complex encryption methods, e.g., Vigenère, Bacon’s cipher and Enigma.
Generate resourceExplore career pathways related to IoT to identify careers associated with the computer science field.
Generate resourceModel the lifecycle of information in the IoT including data gathering, transmission, reception and analysis to recreate a realworld scenario.
Generate resourceModel the role of hardware components to diagram the infrastructure of networks and the internet (including cloud servers).
Generate resourceModel protocols (i.e., rules) and explain why they are used to transmit data across networks and the internet.
Generate resourceExplain how a system responds when information is lost to understand the effect it has on the transferred information.
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