The Bosque Education Guide: Education Standards
Science Part 2: 2003 Content Standard, Benchmarks and Performance Standards
C: Grade Nine through Twelve
Strand III
Strand III: Science and Society |
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| Standard I: Understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge influence, and are influenced by, individuals and societies. | Activity Number* |
| 9-12 Benchmark I: Examine and analyze how scientific discoveries and their applications affect the world, and explain how societies influence scientific investigations and applications. | |
| 9-12 Science and Technology | |
| 2. Understand how advances in technology enable further advances in science (e.g., microscopes and cellular structure; telescopes and understanding of the universe). | 17, 33 |
| 3. Evaluate the influences of technology on society (e.g., communications, petroleum, transportation, nuclear energy, computers, medicine, genetic engineering) including both desired and undesired effects, and including some historical examples (e.g., the wheel, the plow, the printing press, the lightning rod). | 17 |
| 4. Understand the scientific foundations of common technologies (e.g., kitchen appliances, radio, television, aircraft, rockets, computers, medical X-rays, selective breeding, fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural equipment). | 17 |
| Science and Society | |
| 9. Describe how scientific knowledge helps decision makers with local, national, and global challenges (e.g., Waste Isolation Pilot Project [WIPP], mining, drought, population growth, alternative energy, climate change). | 17, 33 |
| 10. Describe major historical changes in scientific perspectives (e.g., atomic theory, germs, cosmology, relativity, plate tectonics, evolution) and the experimental observations that triggered them. | 36, 37, 38 |
| 11. Know that societal factors can promote or constrain scientific discovery (e.g., government funding, laws and regulations about human cloning and genetically modified organisms, gender and ethnic bias, AIDS research, alternative-energy research). | 36, 37, 38 |
| 12. Explain how societies can change ecosystems and how these changes can be reversible or irreversible. | 13, 18, 24, 33, 34 |
| 13. Describe how environmental, economic, and political interests impact resource management and use in New Mexico. | 13, 17, 18, 24, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38 |
| Science and Individuals | |
| 18. Understand that scientists have characteristics in common with other individuals (e.g., employment and career needs, curiosity, desire to perform public service, greed, preconceptions and biases, temptation to be unethical, core values including honesty and openness). | 36, 37, 38 |
| 19. Know that science plays a role in many different kinds of careers and activities (e.g., public service, volunteers, public office holders, researchers, teachers, doctors, nurses, technicians, farmers, ranchers). | 36, 37, 38 |
