Students communicate and apply scientific concepts. Benchmark Students research scientific information through written, technological, and expert sources. Students communicate scientific information and results through formal and informal laboratory reports using technical writing. Students use scientific vocabulary, mathematics, and technology to communicate information via oral, written, and visual means. Students then apply these skills to their own research project.
Students apply scientific principles to personal and social issues.
Benchmark Students explain cause and effect with regard to personal and community health, population change, the use and non-use of natural resources, and environmental quality. Students recognize the nature, characteristics, and limitations of science and technology. Students explore options for a career in scientific or technical fields. Students explain the interdisciplinary connections of science to social, economic, and political issues to include examples of Wyoming issues. In Action Students conduct a career search and identify how the career search draws upon many ways a career is related to many science disciplines.