Science and society
Students will explore and understand the interrelationship between values and science. They will examine the choices we make in terms of how we use the environment and how our choices reflect our values.
8 - 12
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| Day | Topic/Activity | Description and Key Concepts |
| 1 | Students will define the term values and discuss and analyze an environmental issue of local, regional, or national interest. |
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| 2 | The power of words: How they reflect our attitudes and values |
Students will recognize the power of language to reveal individual and community attitudes about specific issues. They will be given controversial statements about an issue. Each of the sentences will have several blank spaces. Students will see how adding or removing words changes their meaning. |
| 3 | Students will jigsaw several articles that help connect values and science. |
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| 4 | Students will explore how film and visuals can be used to explore the connection between human values and science. |
