Students will use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate wit others in support of directed and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. Students will explain the advantages and disadvantages in the use of various technology to deliver information for a target audience. Students understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems. Students pose questions and collect, organize, and represent data to answer those questions. Students will design investigations requiring data collection, including measured data.
Students understand and apply basic notions of chance and probability.
Student will formulate questions or hypotheses based on initial data collection and design further studies to explore them. Students demonstrate the skills necessary to engage in scientific inquiry. Student will develop a hypothesis or prediction based on the question. Students will design and conduct simple investigations to answer their questions. They will collect and organize data for analysis, using simple tools and equipment.