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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Scientific and engineering practices. The student analyzes and interprets data to derive meaning, identify features and patterns, and discover relationships or correlations to develop evidence-based arguments or evaluate designs.

Patterns in science: 
Scientific questions can be generated when scientists observe a pattern of events or when something does not match an established pattern. Scientists can use patterns to classify phenomena. For example, day and night, moon phases, and life cycles are patterns that are used for classification. 

Patterns in engineering: 
Engineers use scientific knowledge to develop or improve objects, systems, or processes. Engineers use patterns found in scientific data to make data-informed decisions during the engineering design process. Engineers may diagnose patterns of failure in a designed system and improve the design or analyze patterns such as daily and seasonal use of power to design a system that can meet fluctuating needs.

factual information (such as observations, measurements, or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation; often includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful

regular sequences that can be found throughout nature