Benchmark
1A
The Nature of Science: The Scientific World View
Grades 6-8, page 7
Some matters cannot be examined usefully in a scientific way. Among
them are matters that by their nature cannot be tested objectively and
those that are essentially matters of morality. Science can sometimes be
used to inform ethical decisions by identifying the likely consequences
of particular actions but cannot be used to establish that some action
is either moral or immoral.
NSES Content Standard E
Science and Technology: Understanding about science and technology
Grades K-4, page 138
People have always had questions about their world. Science is one
way of answering questions and explaining the natural world.
NSES Content Standard A
Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Grades 5-8, page 145
Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Students should develop the ability to refine and refocus broad and ill-defined
questions. An important aspect of this ability consists of students' ability
to clarify questions and inquiries and direct them toward objects and phenomena
that can be described, explained, or predicted by scientific investigations.
Students should develop the ability to identify their questions with scientific
ideas, concepts, and quantitative relationships that guide investigation.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology
in society
Grades 5-8, page 169
Science cannot answer all questions and technology cannot solve all
human problems or meet all human needs. Students should understand the
difference between scientific and other questions. They should appreciate
what science and technology can reasonably contribute to society and what
they cannot do. For example, new technologies often will decrease some
risks and increase others.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology
in local, national, and global challenges
Grades 9-12, page 199
Science and technology are essential social enterprises, but alone
they can only indicate what can happen, not what should happen. The latter
involves human decisions about the use of knowledge.
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