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	<font size="3">Overview of Standards</font></p>
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	<b>Science and Technology Standard B - The Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design:</b> Students plan, conduct, analyze data from and communicate results of in-depth scientific investigations; and they use a systematic process, tools, equipment, and a variety of materials to create a technological design and produce a solution or product to meet a specific need.<br />
	<i>Performance Indicators &amp; Descriptors 9-Diploma</i> - Students plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of in-depth investigations, including experiments guided by a testable hypothesis</p>
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	<b>a) </b>Identify questions, concepts, and testable hypotheses that guide scientific investigations, including experiments with controls<br />
	<b>a) </b>Use statistics to summarize, describe, analyze, and interpret results.</div>
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	<b>MLR Mathematics Standard B. Data:</b> 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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	<b>Data Analysis</b><br />
	<i>Performance Indicators &amp; Descriptors 7</i><br />
	Students use graphs, and charts to represent, organize, interpret, and draw inferences from data.</p>
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	<b>a) </b>Create tables, pictograms, bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, stem and leaf plots, box whiskers plots, and histograms using pencil and paper and electronic technologies.<br />
	<b>b) </b>Draw conclusions based on graphs and charts including tables, pictograms, bar graphs, pie charts, stem and leaf plots, box whiskers plots, and histograms.</div>
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	<b>Statewide Standards - Health Science Careers</b><br />
	Critical/Creative Thinking</p>
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		C1 Locates and researches information and data</li>
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		C2 Performs basic data analysis and evaluation</li>
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		C3 Displays planning and organization skills</li>
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		C4 Applies problem-solving skills</li>
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		C5 Applies decision-making skills</li>
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