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Alignment with HI State Science Standards

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Domain & Strand

Standard

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Domain II. Scientific Knowledge    

Strand 4,

Science and Technology in Society

5. RELATING THE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY TO SCIENCE.
Students use the problem-solving process to address current issues involving human adaptation in the environment.

Increasing populations, climate change, and evolving pests require new solutions, but these new technologies bring up questions about food safety and environment impacts.

 

Controversy about Genetically Engineered Foods

Sustainability

Domain II. Scientific Knowledge    

Strand 1

Historical Perspectives

1. UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AND THE
CHARACTER OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. Students explain the process of how scientific knowledge is generated by scientific inquiry, and are able to critique a scientific investigation.

Historically, agriculture has been a driving force for scientific knowledge and technical advancement. Humans have been changing nature through selection and selective breeding for thousands of years.

Mutants and Clones

Timeline

 

  2. INTERDEPENDENCE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
SOCIETY. Students analyze and evaluate the interdependence of science, technology, and society.

 

the
interdependence of science, technology in the context of society, and the idea of sustainability,
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which is one of the major reasons for having all students learn Science.

  3. MALAMA I KA AINA: SUSTAINABILITY. Students make
decisions needed to sustain life on Earth now and for future
generations by considering the limited resources and fragile
environmental conditions.
Sustainability

Strand 2

Organisms and
Development

4. Unity and Diversity

Students examine the unity and
diversity of organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.

 
 

7. BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION.

Students examine evidence for the
evolution of life on Earth and assess the arguments for natural
selection as a scientific explanation of biological evolution.

 
 

8. HEREDITY.

Students describe how variations in biological traits
are passed on to successive generations.

 
  9. CELLS, TISSUES AND ORGANS. Students explain the structure,
functions, and reproduction of living cells.