Integration Learning
Specific Learning Goals and Key Skills: H, I & J
Science, Technology, and Society (H)
Understand the interactions among science, technology, and human affairs.
1. How does scientific inquiry work as a method of discovery?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Distinguishing between scientific and other explanations for phenomena.
- Comparing and contrasting methodologies used to compile evidence for constructing arguments and drawing conclusions.
- Distinguishing between scientific and other explanations for phenomena.
- Comparing and contrasting methodologies used to compile evidence for constructing arguments and drawing conclusions.
2. How are science, technology, and other disciplines connected?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Explaining how scientific knowledge and new technology relate.
- Identifying the role of scientific inquiry in the natural sciences, humanities, and/or social sciences.
- Recognizing role of mathematics in scientific inquiry.
3. How do we recognize ethical dilemmas in scientific inquiry, methods, and technology?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Analyzing consequences of technological and scientific change on the individual, society, and environment.
- Examining how scientific and technological solutions to societal problems interact with belief systems and worldviews.
- Evaluating how scientific and technological perspectives inform our understanding of societal problems.
Citizenship and Civic Engagement (I)
Understand and apply moral standards to individual conduct and citizenship through ethical inquiry, social awareness, and civic engagement.
1. How do we understand and apply the tools necessary for responsible participation in communities?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Demonstrating knowledge of community issues, assets, and needs.
- Identifying how individuals and communities affect each other.
- Applying knowledge, information, and skills to community issues.
2. How do we understand how ethical issues are embedded in citizenship and civic engagement?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Identifying and analyzing problems or dilemmas via an ethical lens.
- Articulating and acknowledging beliefs as part of value systems.
- Describing own and others’ perceptions and frameworks in ethical decision-making.
- Considering diverse choices, beliefs, and frameworks in responding to ethical dilemmas.
3. How do we apply social science perspectives to past and contemporary issues?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Analyzing and evaluating historical and contemporary issues and problems using discipline-based methodologies and perspectives.
Diversity and Inclusion (J)
Understand institutions, assumptions, and values using national and global perspectives.
1. How is society is complex, contested, and dynamic?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Showing how categories, ideologies, assumptions and roles are culturally constructed and maintained.
- Identifying power structures and explaining their relationship to systems of privilege and inequality.
- Explain contributions of marginalized groups and how differences (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, class, religious affiliation) shape people’s lives.
2. How might others’ world views and cultural practices differ from my own?
Learners will be able to generate and test scientific hypotheses by:
- Analyzing others’ cultural meanings, beliefs, institutions and practices according to one’s familiar point of view.
- Identifying patterns of cultural diversity in a particular region or country and understand how they developed.
- Assessing cultural attitudes and practices that may inhibit tolerance and understanding.
3. How do historical, economic, social, and political conditions affect cultural values and beliefs?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Analyzing how various societies or groups have different values and conditions.
- Explaining individual limits and potentials in any particular setting.
- Describing how life experiences and conditions influence perceptions of self and others.
4. What are the global dynamics of power?
Learners will be able to answer this question by:
- Analyzing the effects of power on specific peoples, societies, and cultural groups.
- Describing the development and impact of global institutions that transcend national economic, political, social and cultural jurisdictions.
- Explaining how and why “globalization” is interpreted differently depending on context.
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