Communicate scientific procedures and explanations. Understandings about scientific inquiry Different kinds of questions suggest different kinds of scientific investigations. Current scientific knowledge and understanding guide scientific investigations. Technology used to gather data enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations. Scientific explanations emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments, and use scientific principles, models, and theories.
Science advances through legitimate skepticism.
Scientific investigations sometimes result in new ideas and phenomena for study, generate new methods or procedures for an investigation, or develop new technologies to improve the collection of data. A substance has characteristic properties, such as solubility. Substances react chemically in characteristic ways with other substances. Many different people in different cultures have made and continue to make contributions to science and technology. Science and technology are reciprocal.