National Science Education Standards
Producing a screenplay or story set in the community provides the scenario for the chapter. As students collaborate to explore the distribution, formation, nature, and impact of volcanism, they begin to develop the content understandings outlined below.
CONTENT STANDARDS
Unifying Concepts and Processes
• Systems, order and organization
• Evidence, models, and explanation
• Constancy, change, and measurement
Science as Inquiry
• Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations
• Design and conduct scientific investigations
• Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations
• Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence
• Communicate and defend a scientific argument
• Understand scientific inquiry
Earth and Space Science
• Energy in the Earth system
• Geochemical cycles
• Origin and evolution of the Earth system
Science and Technology
• Identify a problem or design an opportunity
• Propose designs and choose between alternative solutions
• Implement a proposed solution
• Evaluate the solution and its consequences
• Communicate the problem, process, and solution
• Understand science and technology
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
• Personal and community health
• 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 |