New York State
Education Standards:
Standard MST1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering
design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop
solutions.
Key Idea MST1.SI2:
Scientific Inquiry: Beyond the use of reasoning and consensus, scientific
inquiry involves the testing of proposed explanations involving the use of
conventional techniques and procedures and usually requiring considerable
ingenuity.
Key Idea MST1.SI3:
Scientific Inquiry: The observations made while testing proposed
explanations, when analyzed using conventional and invented methods, provide
new insights into phenomena.
Standard MST2: Information Systems
Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using
appropriate technologies.
Key Idea MST2.IS1:
Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate
information and as a tool to enhance learning.
Standard MST3: Mathematics
Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by
communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-
world settings
Key Idea MST3.MR1:
Students use mathematical reasoning to analyze mathematical situations, make
conjectures, gather evidence, and construct an argument.
Standard MST4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and
theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and
recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
The Living Environment
Key Idea MST4.LE5:
Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.
Performance Indicator MST4.E.LE5C:
Students describe the factors that help promote good health and growth in
humans.
5.3a Humans need a variety of healthy foods, exercise, and rest in order to
grow and maintain good health.
5.3b Good health habits include hand washing and personal cleanliness;
avoiding harmful substances (including alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs);
eating a balanced diet; engaging in regular exercise.
Performance Indicator MST4.I.LE5B:
Students describe the importance of major nutrients, vitamins, and minerals
in maintaining health and promoting growth, and explain the need for a
constant input of energy for living organisms.
5.2a Food provides molecules that serve as fuel and building material for
all organisms. All living things, including plants, must release energy from
their food, using it to carry on their life processes.
5.2b Foods contain a variety of substances, which include carbohydrates,
fats, vitamins, proteins, minerals, and water. Each substance is vital to
the survival of the organism.
5.2c Metabolism is the sum of all chemical reactions in an organism.
Metabolism can be influenced by hormones, exercise, diet, and aging.
5.2d Energy in foods is measured in Calories. The total caloric value of
each type of food varies. The number of Calories a person requires varies
from person to person.
5.2e In order to maintain a balanced state, all organisms have a minimum
daily intake of each type of nutrient based on species, size, age, sex,
activity, etc. An imbalance in any of the nutrients might result in weight
gain, weight loss, or a diseased state.
Performance Indicator MST4.C.LE5A:
Students explain the basic biochemical processes in living organisms and
their importance in maintaining dynamic equilibrium.
5.1c In all organisms, organic compounds can be used to assemble other
molecules such as proteins, DNA, starch, and fats. The chemical energy
stored in bonds can be used as a source of energy for life processes.
5.1e The energy from ATP is used by the organism to obtain, transform, and
transport materials, and to eliminate wastes.
Standard MST5: Technology
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct,
use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental
needs.
Key Idea MST5.CT3:
Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing,
communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity
and knowledge.
Standard MST7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics,
science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed
decisions.
Key Idea MST7.CO1:
The knowledge and skills of mathematics, science, and technology are used
together to make informed decisions and solve problems, especially those
relating to issues of science/technology/society, consumer decision-making,
design, and inquiry into phenomena.
Performance Indicator MST7.E.CO1A:
Students analyze science/technology/society problems and issues that affect
their home, school, or community, and carry out a remedial course of action.
Performance Indicator MST7.E.CO1B:
Students make informed consumer decisions by applying knowledge about the
attributes of particular products and making cost/benefit tradeoffs to
arrive at an optimal choice.
Performance Indicator MST7.E.CO1C:
Students design solutions to problems involving a familiar and real context,
investigate related science concepts to inform the solution, and use
mathematics to model, quantify, measure, and compute.
Performance Indicator MST7.E.CO1D:
Students observe phenomena and evaluate them scientifically and
mathematically by conducting a fair test of the effect of variables and
using mathematical knowledge and technological tools to collect, analyze,
and present data and conclusions.
Performance Indicator MST7.I.CO1A:
Students analyze science/technology/society problems and issues at the local
level and plan and carry out a remedial course of action.
Performance Indicator MST7.I.CO1B:
Students make informed consumer decisions by seeking answers to appropriate
questions about products, services, and systems; determining the
cost/benefit and risk/benefit tradeoffs; and applying this knowledge to a
potential purchase.
Performance Indicator MST7.C.CO1C:
Students design solutions to real-world problems on a community, national,
or global scale using a technological design process that integrates
scientific investigation and rigorous mathematical analysis of the problem
and of the solution.
Standard CDOS1: Career Development
Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career
options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future
career decisions.
Standard CDOS2: Integrated Learning
Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in
the workplace and other settings.
Key Idea CDOS2.1:
Integrated learning encourages students to use essential academic concepts,
facts, and procedures in applications related to life skills and the world
of work. This approach allows students to see the usefulness of the concepts
that they are being asked to learn and to understand their potential
application in the world of work.
Standard CDOS3b: Career Majors
Students who choose a career major will acquire the career-specific
technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment,
career advancement, and success in postsecondary programs.
Health Services
Key Idea CDOS3b.HS3:
Health Maintenance
Performance Indicator CDOS3b.C.HS3A:
Students develop knowledge of the concept of optimal health and identify
factors that affect health maintenance.
