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	Overview of Standards<br />
	Science Standard A - Unifying Themes: Students apply the principles of systems, models, constancy and change, and scale in science and technology.</p>
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	A1 - Systems<br />
	Performance Indicators 6-8<br />
	Students describe and apply principles of systems in man-made things, natural things, and processes.<br />
	b. Explain how the output of one part of a system, including waste products from manufacturing or organisms, can become the input of another part of a system.<br />
	A4 - Scale<br />
	Performance Indicators and Descriptors 6-8<br />
	Students use scale to describe objects, phenomena, or processes related to Earth, space, matter, and mechanical and living systems.<br />
	b. Use proportions, averages, and ranges to describe small and large extremes of scale.</p>
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	ELA Standard C - Research: Students engage in inquiry by developing research questions, accessing and verifying a variety of sources, com&shy;municating findings, and applying the conventions of documentation. Students present findings orally, in writing, or using mixed media.</p>
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	C1 - Research<br />
	Performance Indicators and Descriptors 6-8<br />
	Students propose and revise research questions, collect information from a wide variety of primary and/or secondary sources, and follow the conventions of documentation to communicate findings.<br />
	a. Determine the nature and extent of information needed.<br />
	b. Locate and access relevant information.<br />
	c. Demonstrate facility with note-taking, organizing information, and creating bibliographies<br />
	d. Distinguish between primary and secondary sources<br />
	e. Summarize and interpret information presented in varied sources and/or from fieldwork, experiments, and interviews<br />
	f. Present findings by paraphrasing, quoting sources, and using proper citation.<br />
	g. Use information ethically and legally</p>
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	MLR Mathematics Standard B - Data: Students make measurements and collect, display, evaluate, analyze, and compute with data to describe or model phenomena and to make decisions based on data. Students compute statistics to summarize data sets and use concepts of probability to make predictions and describe the uncertainty inherent in data collection and measurement.</p>
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	Measurement and Approximation<br />
	Performance Indicators &amp; Descriptors 8<br />
	2. Students convert across measurement systems and within a system for different units in derived measures<br />
	Performance Indicators &amp; Descriptors 9-Diploma<br />
	1. Students understand the relationship between precision and accuracy<br />
	Express answers to a reasonable degree of precision in the context of a given problem<br />
	Represent an approximate measurement using appropriate numbers of significant figures</p>
