National Science Education Standards
Creating a booklet addressing one current environmental issue for the public to be better able to decide how to vote on any given issue is the Scenario in this chapter. As students explore diversity in living things, dependence of the organisms on one another, the factors that affect population size, competition among organisms, succession, the water cycle, the carbon and oxygen cycle and their role in the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, and nitrogen
and phosphorous cycle, they begin to develop the content understandings outlined below.
Content Standards
Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Systems, order, and organization
- Evidence, models, and explanation
- Change, constancy, and measurement
- Form and function
Science as Inquiry
- Develop abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations
- Design and conduct scientific investigations
- Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications
- Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models
- Communicate and defend a scientific argument
- Develop understandings about scientific inquiry
Life Science
- Interdependence of organisms
- Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
- Behavior of organisms
Science and Technology
- Develop abilities of technological design
- Propose designs and choose between alternative solutions
- Communicate the problem, process, and solution
- Develop understandings about science and technology
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Personal and community health
- Population growth
- Natural resources
- Environmental quality
- Natural and human-induced hazards
- Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
History and Nature of Science
- Science as a human endeavor
- Nature of scientific knowledge
- Historical perspectives
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