Alaska Science
Key Element D2

A student who meets the content standard should understand that scientific innovations may affect our economy, safety, environment, health, and society and that these effects may be short-term or long-term, positive or negative, and expected or unexpected.

Performance Standard Level 1, Ages 5–7

Students role-play and discuss the positive and negative consequences of a single scientific or technological event.

Sample Assessment Ideas

• Students role-play a small community where only one family has an automobile.

• Students discuss the positive and negative effects of mosquito repellent.

Standards Cross-References
( Alaska Department of Education & Early Development Standards)

National Science Education Standards

People have always had problems and invented tools and techniques (ways of doing something) to solve problems. Trying to determine the effects of solutions helps people avoid some new problems. (Page 138)

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. It is helpful to try to determine in advance how ideas and inventions will affect other people. (Page 140)

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. (Page 141)

Benchmarks

Tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some things that could not otherwise be done at all. In technology, tools are used to observe, measure, and make things. (Page 44)

People, alone or in groups, are always inventing new ways to solve problems and get work done. The tools and ways of doing things that people have invented affect all aspects of life. (Page 54)