This resource has 24 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Science as Inquiry
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    • Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations. (9-12)
    • Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications. (9-12)
    • Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence. (9-12)
    • Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models. (9-12)
    • Communicate and defend a scientific argument. (9-12)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry
    • Conceptual principles and knowledge guide scientific inquiries. (9-12)
    • Historical and current scientific knowledge influence the design and interpretation of investigations and the evaluation of proposed explanations made by other scientists. (9-12)
    • Scientists conduct investigations for a wide variety of reasons. For example, they may wish to discover new aspects of the natural world, explain recently observed phenomena, or test the conclusions of prior investigations or the predictions of current theories. (9-12)
    • Scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. (9-12)
    • New techniques and tools provide new evidence to guide inquiry and new methods to gather data, thereby contributing to the advance of science. (9-12)
    • The accuracy and precision of the data, and therefore the quality of the exploration, depends on the technology used. (9-12)
    • Mathematics is essential in scientific inquiry. (9-12)
    • In presenting data, graphs are used to convey comparisons or trends. (9-12)
    • Mathematical tools and models guide and improve the posing of questions, gathering data, constructing explanations and communicating results. (9-12)
    • Scientific explanations must adhere to criteria such as: a proposed explanation must be logically consistent; it must abide by the rules of evidence; it must be open to questions and possible modification; and it must be based on historical and current scientific knowledge. (9-12)
    • Results of scientific inquiry--new knowledge and methods--emerge from different types of investigations and public communication among scientists. (9-12)
    • In communicating and defending the results of scientific inquiry, arguments must be logical and demonstrate connections between natural phenomena, investigations, and the historical body of scientific knowledge. (9-12)
    • In addition, the methods and procedures that scientists used to obtain evidence must be clearly reported to enhance opportunities for further investigation. (9-12)

• History and Nature of Science
  • Nature of scientific knowledge
    • Science distinguishes itself from other ways of knowing and from other bodies of knowledge through the use of empirical standards, logical arguments, and skepticism, as scientists strive for the best possible explanations about the natural world. (9-12)
    • Scientific explanations must meet certain criteria. (9-12)
    • First and foremost, scientific explanations must be consistent with experimental and observational evidence about nature, and must make accurate predictions, when appropriate, about systems being studied. (9-12)
    • Scientific explanations should be logical, respect the rules of evidence, be open to criticism, report methods and procedures, and make knowledge public. (9-12)
    • Explanations on how the natural world changes based on myths, personal beliefs, religious values, mystical inspiration, superstition, or authority may be personally useful and socially relevant, but they are not scientific. (9-12)
    • Because all scientific ideas depend on experimental and observational confirmation, all scientific knowledge is, in principle, subject to change as new evidence becomes available. (9-12)