Standard MST4: Science
Key Idea MST4.LE7: Human decisions and activities have had a
profound impact on the physical and living environment.
Performance Indicators
MST4.E.LE7A: Students identify ways in which humans have changed
their environments and the effects of those changes.
MST4.I.LE7A: Students describe how living things, including humans,
depend upon the living and nonliving environment for their survival.
MST4.I.LE7B: Students describe the effects of environmental changes
on humans and other populations.
MST4.C.LE7A: Students describe the range of interrelationships of
humans with the living and nonliving environment.
MST4.C.LE7B: Students explain the impact of technological
development and growth in the human population on the living and
nonliving environment.
MST4.C.LE7C: Students explain how individual choices and societal
actions can contribute to improving the environment. Engineering
design is an iterative process involving modeling and optimization used
to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints.
Standard MST4: Science
Key Idea MST4.LE3: Individual organisms and species change over
time.
MST4.E.LE3A: Students describe how the structures of plants and
animals complement the environment of the plant or animal.
MST4.E.LE3B: Students observe that differences within a species may
give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing.
MST4.I.LE3A: Students describe sources of variation in organisms and
their structures and relate the variations to survival.
MST4.I.LE3B: Students describe factors responsible for competition
within species and the significance of that competition.
MST4.C.LE3A: Students explain the mechanisms and patterns of
evolution.
Standard MST5: Technology
Key Idea MST5.ED1: Engineering design is an iterative process
involving modeling and optimization used to develop technological
solutions to problems within given constraints.
MST5.E.ED1C: Students generate ideas for possible solutions,
individually and through group activity; apply age-appropriate
mathematics and science skills; evaluate the ideas and determine the
best solution; and explain reasons for the choices.
MST5.I.ED1B: Students locate and utilize a range of printed, electronic,
and human information resources to obtain ideas.
MST5.I.ED1C: Students consider constraints and generate several
ideas for alternative solutions, using group and individual ideation
techniques (group discussion, brainstorming, forced connections, role
play); defer judgment until a number of ideas have been generated;
evaluate (critique) ideas; and explain why the chosen solution is
optimal.
MST5.C.ED1D: Students develop work schedules and plans which
include optimal use and cost of materials, processes, time, and
expertise; construct a model of the solution, incorporating
developmental modifications while working to a high degree of quality
(craftsmanship).
MST5.C.ED1E: Students in a group setting, devise a test of the solution
relative to the design criteria and perform the test; record, portray, and
logically evaluate performance test results through quantitative, graphic,
and verbal means; and use a variety of creative verbal and graphic
techniques effectively and persuasively to present conclusions, predict
impacts and new problems, and suggest and pursue modifications.
Standard MST5: Technology
Key Idea MST5.HT5: Technology has been the driving force in the
evolution of society from an agricultural to an industrial to an information
base.
MST5.E.HT5A: Students identify technological developments that have
significantly accelerated human progress.
MST5.I.HT5A: Students describe how the evolution of technology led to
the shift in society from an agricultural base to an industrial base to an
information base.
MST5.C.HT5A: Students explain how technological inventions and
innovations have caused global growth and interdependence,
stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made
other jobs obsolete.
Standard ELA1: Language for Information and Understanding
Key Ideas
ELA1.LR1: Listening and reading to acquire information and
understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering
relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge
from oral, written, and electronic sources.
ELA1.SW2: Speaking and writing to acquire and transmit information
requires asking probing and clarifying questions, interpreting
information in one's own words, applying information from one context
to another, and presenting the information and interpretation clearly,
concisely, and comprehensibly.
