(9-12) M4

Science Curriculum Preview Committee Clarification of Learning Results

Revised 07/01/04

9-12

M4: Analyze the impacts of various scientific and technological developments.

Curriculum Organizing Questions

How did this development impact society?

How did the development impact science?

How did the development impact technology?

How did the development impact you?

Elaboration
Some episodes in the history of the scientific endeavor are of surpassing significance to our cultural heritage. Some developments have changed the very world that we inhabit.

Specific Ideas

The early Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Hindu, and Arabic cultures are responsible for many scientific and mathematical ideas and technological inventions.Benchmarks 1C1.

Modern science is based on traditions of thought that came together in Europe about 500 years ago.Benchmarks 1C2.

Progress in science and invention depends heavily on what else is happening in society, and history often depends on scientific and technological developments.Benchmarks 1C3.

The very availability of new technology itself often sparks scientific advances.Benchmarks 3A1.

Technology usually affects society more directly than science because it solves practical problems and serves human needs (and may create new problems and needs). In contrast, science affects society mainly by stimulating and satisfying people's curiosity and occasionally by enlarging or challenging their views of what the world is like. Benchmarks 3A3.

Technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collections and treatment, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information.Benchmarks 3A2 (6-8).

New medical techniques, efficient health care delivery systems, improved sanitation, and a fuller understanding of the nature of disease give today's human beings a better chance of staying healthy than their forebears had.Benchmarks 6E3.

Occasionally, there are advances in science and technology that have important and long-lasting effects on science and society. Examples of such advances include the following: Copernican revolution, Newtonian mechanics, Relativity, Geologic Time Scale, Plate Tectonics, Atomic theory, Nuclear physics, Biological evolution, Germ theory, Industrial Revolution, Molecular biology, Information and communication, Quantum theory, Galactic universe, Medical and health technology.NSES G3c.

Developmental & Instructional Implications

Examples
Copernican revolution, Newtonian mechanics, Relativity, Geologic Time Scale, Plate Tectonics, Atomic theory, Nuclear physics, Biological evolution, Germ theory, Industrial Revolution, Molecular biology, Information and communication, Quantum theory, Galactic universe, Medical and health technology. NSES p.204.

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Curriculum Organizing Questions	How did this development impact society? How did the development impact science? How did the development impact technology? How did the development impact you?
Elaboration	Some episodes in the history of the scientific endeavor are of surpassing significance to our cultural heritage. Some developments have changed the very world that we inhabit.
Specific Ideas	The early Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Hindu, and Arabic cultures are responsible for many scientific and mathematical ideas and technological inventions.Benchmarks 1C1. Modern science is based on traditions of thought that came together in Europe about 500 years ago.Benchmarks 1C2. Progress in science and invention depends heavily on what else is happening in society, and history often depends on scientific and technological developments.Benchmarks 1C3. The very availability of new technology itself often sparks scientific advances.Benchmarks 3A1. Technology usually affects society more directly than science because it solves practical problems and serves human needs (and may create new problems and needs). In contrast, science affects society mainly by stimulating and satisfying people's curiosity and occasionally by enlarging or challenging their views of what the world is like. Benchmarks 3A3. Technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collections and treatment, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information.Benchmarks 3A2 (6-8). New medical techniques, efficient health care delivery systems, improved sanitation, and a fuller understanding of the nature of disease give today's human beings a better chance of staying healthy than their forebears had.Benchmarks 6E3. Occasionally, there are advances in science and technology that have important and long-lasting effects on science and society. Examples of such advances include the following: Copernican revolution, Newtonian mechanics, Relativity, Geologic Time Scale, Plate Tectonics, Atomic theory, Nuclear physics, Biological evolution, Germ theory, Industrial Revolution, Molecular biology, Information and communication, Quantum theory, Galactic universe, Medical and health technology.NSES G3c.
Developmental & Instructional Implications
Examples	Copernican revolution, Newtonian mechanics, Relativity, Geologic Time Scale, Plate Tectonics, Atomic theory, Nuclear physics, Biological evolution, Germ theory, Industrial Revolution, Molecular biology, Information and communication, Quantum theory, Galactic universe, Medical and health technology. NSES p.204.