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Standard Area - TECH: Learning Standards for Technology
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Introduction - MST4.C.LE.LE.7.Introduction:
Population growth has placed new strains on the environment-massive pollution of air and water, deforestation and extinction of species, global warming, and alteration of the ozone shield. Some individuals believe that there will be a technological fix for such problems. Others, concerned with the accelerating pace of change and the ecological concept of finite resources, are far less optimistic. What is certain, however, is that resolving these issues will require increasing global awareness, cooperation, and action.
Since the students of today will be the elected officials and informed public of tomorrow, the teacher should encourage a diversity of activities that will allow students to explore, explain, and apply conceptual understandings and skills necessary to be environmentally literate.
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Major Understandings - MST4.C.LE.LE.7.3a:
Societies must decide on proposals which involve the introduction of new technologies. Individuals need to make decisions which will assess risks, costs, benefits, and trade-offs. -
Major Understandings - MST4.C.LE.LE.7.3b:
The decisions of one generation both provide and limit the range of possibilities open to the next generation.
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