In this unit students will:
- Describe the unifying characteristics of living things
- Explain how feedback loops maintain homeostasis within a living system
- Develop scientific questions and hypotheses
- Write a scientific hypothesis using "If...then...because..." format
- Design and evaluate scientific procedures
- Gather, display, and analyze data
- Correctly determine whether a line, boar, or scatter plot graph is appropriate
- Identify & summarize important trends in a data set
- Draw conclusions that are justified by supporting data and show understanding of scientific content
- Identify sources of error and make predictions about how data have been impacted
- Propose improvements to correct for sources of error