Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts and principles of Earth sciences. Students relate how human ingenuity and resources combine to meet human needs and wants through technology. Students master and apply technological advances. Students use, master and apply inquiry, including the scientific method and problem solving in technology. Students construct and evaluate scientific and technological system approaches to explain or predict results.
Students explain the interrelationships among science, technology and other human endeavors.
The knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making. The relationship between science and technology is so close that any presentation of science without developing an understanding of technology would portray an inaccurate picture of science. The assessment standards provide criteria against which to judge the quality of assessment practices. The atom's nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons, which are much more massive than electrons. When an element has atoms that differ in the number of neutrons, these atoms are called different isotopes of the element.