PreK-2

M5: Explain how their lives would be different without specific inventions or scientific knowledge.

Curriculum Organizing Questions	What would your day be like if you couldn't use this invention? What would your day be like if no one knew this scientific idea?
Elaboration	Children are veteran technology users by the time they enter school...Children are also natural explorers and inventors, and they like to make things...Activities should focus on problems and needs in and around the school that interest the children and that can be addressed feasibly and safely. Benchmarks p.44.
Specific Ideas	People continue inventing new ways of doing things, solving problems, and getting work done. New ideas and inventions often affect other people; sometimes the effects are good and sometimes they are bad.NSES F5a. Science and technology have greatly improved food quality and quantity, transportation, health, sanitation, and communication. These benefits of science and technology are not available to all of the people in the world. NSES F5b. Tools help scientists make better observations, measurements, and equipment for investigations. They help scientists to see, measure, and do things that they could not otherwise see, measure, and do. NSES E2e.
Developmental & Instructional Implications	Use care to choose simple, straightforward examples within students' realm of direct experience.
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