Science and Society: Grades 1 and 5

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Questions and Answers

Which statement accurately reflects the interdisciplinary nature of addressing global challenges?

Global challenges can be solved without considering social and cultural impacts.
Engineering solutions are developed independently of scientific findings.
Engineering solutions to global challenges require consideration of scientific findings, societal requirements, and risk mitigation. (correct)
Engineering can help address challenges like clean water and energy while minimizing pollution, but these solutions do not affect local communities.

When assessing the credibility of scientific information, which factor is LEAST important to consider?

The presence of complex scientific jargon and terminology used. (correct)
Possible biases or conflicts of interest that could influence the presentation of information.
Whether the information is supported by multiple sources.
The author's qualifications and expertise in the scientific field.

How do advances in science and technology influence each other?

Advances in technology give scientists new capabilities to explore the natural world, which may lead to new scientific questions and further investigation.
Advances in science offer new capabilities or materials that can be employed by engineers, and conversely, technological advances provide scientists new means to investigate with greater precision. (correct)
Advances in science offer new capabilities that can be applied through engineering to produce advances in technology, but technology has no impact on science.
Advances in science and technology occur independently of each other.

In what way does human dependence on Earth's resources pose a challenge for future sustainability?

Humans depend on finite resources that are unevenly distributed; therefore, responsible management of resources is required for human societies and biodiversity to be sustainable. (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of empirical evidence in differentiating between correlation and causation?

Empirical evidence can help distinguish specific causes and effects. (B) Signup and view all the answers

In addressing a local environmental challenge, what should decision-makers prioritize when evaluating design solutions?

Prioritize design solutions that consider a range of constraints including cost, safety, reliability, aesthetics, and social, cultural, and environmental impacts. (A) Signup and view all the answers

What role do models play in understanding complex systems?

Models can be used to represent systems and their interactions, offering valuable insights despite their limitations. (B) Signup and view all the answers

What aspect of science distinguishes it from other ways of knowing?

Its emphasis on empirical standards, logical arguments, and skeptical review. (D) Signup and view all the answers

What exemplifies the interdisciplinary nature of addressing science-related challenges in New Mexico??

Creating solutions that use claims, evidence, and reasoning for challenges such as solar energy production, oil and gas production, and water scarcity. (C) Signup and view all the answers

How does scientific knowledge evolve over time?

Scientific knowledge is durable yet is subject to change based on new evidence. (B) Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards

NM Contributions

Men and women of all backgrounds in New Mexico have worked together to advance science and technology.

Improving Technologies

Existing technologies are improved, new ones developed, or society is improved using science.

Local Tech Impacts

Advantages and disadvantages of technologies related to industries and energy in the local area.

Human activities effects

Human activities can have advantages/disadvantages. e.g., reclamation, dams and habitat restoration.

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NM Nuclear Science Role

NM labs contributed to theoretical, experimental, applied science, illustrated interdependence, and used systems (hardware, software, production, simulation, and information flow).

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Science Argumentation

Requires claims, scientific evidence, reasoning that helps decision makers with a NM challenge or opportunity related to science.

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Study Notes

NM STEM Ready! Science Standards

Grade 1: Science and Society

Students learn about men and women from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds in New Mexico and their contributions to science and technology.
Regardless of background, anyone can contribute to science and technology.
Students obtain information from texts and media to answer scientific questions and support claims.
Asking questions and gathering information helps in thinking about problems.
Patterns in the natural and human-designed world can describe phenomena and serve as evidence.
The natural and material world is studied by scientists.
Diverse backgrounds are represented by scientists and engineers.

Grade 5: Science and Society

Students learn how various scientists and engineers in New Mexico have improved existing technologies, developed new ones, or enhanced society through science.
Advances in science offer new capabilities and understanding that engineering can apply to produce technological advancements.
Technology advances provide scientists with new capabilities to explore the natural world in more detail.
Efforts to improve technologies often lead to new questions for scientists.
Scientists and engineers come from all cultures and backgrounds.
Creativity and imagination are important in science.
Science is a way of knowing used by many people.

Middle School: Human Impacts

Students describe the advantages and disadvantages of technologies related to industries and energy production in local areas.
Short- and long-term impacts of technologies on water usage, land usage, pollution, local employment, and economic stimulus are examined.
Students compare and critique arguments on a topic, analyzing evidence and interpretations.
They gather and synthesize information from multiple sources, assessing credibility, accuracy, and potential bias.
Humans rely on Earth's resources, which are limited and unevenly distributed.
Sustainable human societies and biodiversity require responsible management of natural resources.
Technology uses and limitations are driven by needs, desires, values, science, and conditions like climate.
Cause and effect relationships can predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.
Models can represent systems, their interactions, and flows of energy, matter, and information.

High School: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Students describe design solutions while analyzing advantages and disadvantages of human activities such as reclamation projects, building dams, and habitat restoration for a local issue.
Solutions can incorporate multiple student generated sources of evidence with scientific ideas.
Human-induced changes like habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, and climate change can disrupt an ecosystem and threaten species survival.
Humans depend on the living world for resources and other benefits.
Ecosystems maintenance aids humanity by preserving landscapes of value.
Solution evaluations need to account a range restraints including cost, safety, reliability, aesthetics, and social, cultural and environmental impacts
Science strives to explain how things change and persist.

High School: Science and Society

Students obtain and communicate information about New Mexico's role in nuclear science and 21st-century innovations.
This includes how national laboratories have contributed to science, illustrated the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology, and used systems involving hardware, software, production, simulation, and information flow.
Criteria and constraints for engineering problems include societal requirements and risk mitigation.
Global challenges like clean water, food, and minimal pollution can be addressed through engineering.
Science stands out from other types of knowledge through the use of reasoning, arguments, empiricism and skepticism review
New technologies can have unintentional effects on society/environment.

High School: Science and Society

Students construct arguments using claims, scientific evidence, and reasoning to aid decision-makers with a New Mexico science challenge or opportunity.
Examples may include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), mining, oil and gas production, solar energy production, environmental remediation, urbanization, water scarcity, forest fires, or flash floods.
Criteria and constraints need to consider how humans can affect the world.
Evidence must show a claim for something to be the cause or a result.
Science knowledge is open to evaluation and corrections in light of new evidence
Ethical problems may arise for which science stands a chance to find and provide solutions