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Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Science and Technology -- Grade 10

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3.1.10. Unifying Themes


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Discriminate among the concepts of systems, subsystems, feedback and control in solving technological problems.

B. Describe concepts of models as a way to predict and understand science and technology.

C. Apply patterns as repeated processes or recurring elements in science and technology.

D. Apply scale as a way of relating concepts and ideas to one another by some measure.

  • Apply dimensional analysis and scale as a ratio.

  • Convert one scale to another.

    • Units
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/psc91/2b.asp

E. Describe patterns of change in nature, physical and man made systems.

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3.2.10. Inquiry and Design


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Apply knowledge and understanding about the nature of scientific and technological knowledge.

B. Apply process knowledge and organize scientific and technological phenomena in varied ways.

  • Describe materials using precise quantitative and qualitative skills based on observations.

  • Develop appropriate scientific experiments: raising questions, formulating hypotheses, testing, controlled experiments, recognizing variables, manipulating variables, interpreting data, and producing solutions.

  • Use process skills to make inferences and predictions using collected information and to communicate, using space / time relationships, defining operationally.

C. Apply the elements of scientific inquiry to solve problems.

  • Generate questions about objects, organisms and/or events that can be answered through scientific investigations.

  • Evaluate the appropriateness of questions.

  • Design an investigation with adequate control and limited variables to investigate a question.

  • Conduct a multiple step experiment.

  • Organize experimental information using a variety of analytic methods.

  • Judge the significance of experimental information in answering the question.

  • Suggest additional steps that might be done experimentally.

D. Identify and apply the technological design process to solve problems.

  • Examine the problem, rank all necessary information and all questions that must be answered.

  • Propose and analyze a solution.

  • Implement the solution.

  • Evaluate the solution, test, redesign and improve as necessary.

  • Communicate the process and evaluate and present the impacts of the solution.

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3.3.10. Biological Sciences


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Explain the structural and functional similarities and differences found among living things.

B. Describe and explain the chemical and structural basis of living organisms.

C. Describe how genetic information is inherited and expressed.

D. Explain the mechanisms of the theory of evolution.

  • Analyze data from fossil records, similarities in anatomy and physiology, embryological studies and DNA studies that are relevant to the theory of evolution.

  • Explain the role of mutations and gene recombination in changing a population of organisms.

    • Human Biology AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/lif72/8.asp

  • Compare modern day descendants of extinct species and propose possible scientific accounts for their present appearance.

  • Describe the factors (e.g., isolation, differential reproduction) affecting gene frequency in a population over time and their consequences.

  • Describe and differentiate between the roles of natural selection and genetic drift.

  • Describe changes that illustrate major events in the earth's development based on a time line.

  • Explain why natural selection can act only on inherited traits.

  • Apply the concept of natural selection to illustrate and account for a species' survival, extinction or change over time.

Ecosystem Standards are in the Environment and Ecology Standard Category (4.6.10).

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3.4.10. Physical Science, Chemistry and Physics


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Explain concepts about the structure and properties of matter.

B. Analyze energy sources and transfers of heat.

  • Determine the efficiency of chemical systems by applying mathematical formulas.

  • Use knowledge of chemical reactions to generate an electrical current.

  • Evaluate energy changes in chemical reactions.

  • Use knowledge of conservation of energy and momentum to explain common phenomena (e.g., refrigeration system, rocket propulsion).

  • Explain resistance, current and electro-motive force (Ohm's Law).

C. Distinguish among the principles of force and motion.

  • Identify the relationship of electricity and magnetism as two aspects of a single electromagnetic force.

  • Identify elements of simple machines in compound machines.

  • Explain fluid power systems through the design and construction of appropriate models.

  • Describe sound effects (e.g., Doppler effect, amplitude, frequency, reflection, refraction, absorption, sonar, seismic).

  • Describe light effects (e.g., Doppler effect, dispersion, absorption, emission spectra, polarization, interference).

  • Describe and measure the motion of sound, light and other objects.

  • Know Newton's laws of motion (including inertia, action and reaction) and gravity and apply them to solve problems related to forces and mass.

  • Determine the efficiency of mechanical systems by applying mathematical formulas.

D. Explain essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe.

  • Compare the basic structures of the universe (e.g., galaxy types, nova, black holes, neutron stars).

  • Describe the structure and life cycle of star, using the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

  • Describe the nuclear processes involved in energy production in a star.

  • Explain the "red-shift" and Hubble's use of it to determine stellar distance and movement.

  • Compare absolute versus apparent star magnitude and their relation to stellar distance.

  • Explain the impact of the Copernican and Newtonian thinking on man's view of the universe.

  • Identify and analyze the findings of several space instruments in regard to the extent and composition of the solar system and universe.

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3.5.10. Earth Sciences


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Relate earth features and processes that change the earth.

  • Illustrate and explain plate tectonics as the mechanism of continental movement and sea floor changes.

  • Compare examples of change to the earth's surface over time as they related to continental movement and ocean basin formation (e.g., Delaware, Susquehanna, Ohio Rivers system formations, dynamics).

    • Plate Tectonics AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/ear82/2.asp

  • Interpret topographic maps to identify and describe significant geologic history/structures in Pennsylvania.

  • Evaluate and interpret geologic history using geologic maps.

  • Explain several methods of dating earth materials and structures.

  • Correlate rock units with general geologic time periods in the history of the earth.

  • Describe and identify major types of rocks and minerals.

    • Minerals AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/ear82/6.asp
    • The Rock Cycle AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/ear82/7.asp

B. Explain sources and uses of earth resources.

  • Compare the locations of strategic minerals and earth resources in the world with their geologic history using maps and global information systems.

  • Demonstrate the effects of sedimentation and erosion before and after a conservation plan is implemented.

  • Evaluate the impact of geologic activities/hazards (e.g., earthquakes, sinkholes, landslides).

  • Evaluate land use (e.g., agricultural, recreational, residential, commercial) in Pennsylvania based upon soil characteristics.

C. Interpret meteorological data.

  • Analyze information from meteorological instruments and online sources to predict weather patterns.

  • Describe weather and climate patterns on global levels.

  • Evaluate specific adaptations plants and animals have made that enable them to survive in different climates.

    • Adaptation
      http://www.beyondbooks.com/lif72/1b.asp

D. Assess the value of water as a resource.

  • Compare specific sources of potable water (e.g., wells, public systems, rivers) used by people in Pennsylvania.

  • Identify the components of a municipal/agricultural water supply system and a wastewater treatment system.

  • Relate aquatic life to water conditions (e.g., turbidity, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen levels, pressure).

  • Compare commercially important aquatic species in or near Pennsylvania.

  • Identify economic resources found in marine areas.

  • Assess the natural and man-made factors that affect the availability of clean water (e.g., rock and mineral deposits, man-made pollution).

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3.6.10. Technology Education


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Apply biotechnologies that relate to propagating, growing, maintaining, adapting, treating and converting.

  • Apply knowledge of plant and animal production processes in designing an improvement to existing processes.

  • Apply knowledge of biomedical technology applications in designing a solution to a simple medical problem (e.g., wheel chair design, artificial arteries).

  • Apply knowledge of how biomedical technology affects waste products in designing a solution that will result in reduced waste.

  • Apply ergonomic engineering factors when devising a solution to a specific problem.

  • Describe various methods of biochemical conversion.

    describe specific examples that reflect the impact that agricultural science has had on biotechnology.

B. Apply knowledge of information technologies of encoding, transmitting, receiving, storing, retrieving and decoding.

  • Describe the proper use of graphic and electronic communication systems.

  • Apply a variety of advanced mechanical and electronic drafting methods to communicate a solution to a specific problem.

  • Apply and analyze advanced communication techniques to produce an image that effectively conveys a message (e.g., desktop publishing, audio and/or video production).

  • Illustrate an understanding of a computer network system by modeling, constructing or assembling its components.

C. Apply physical technologies of structural design, analysis and engineering, personnel relations, financial affairs, structural production, marketing, research and design to real world problems.

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3.7.10. Technological Devices


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Identify and safely use a variety of tools, basic machines, materials and techniques to solve problems and answer questions.

  • Select and safely apply appropriate tools, materials and processes necessary to solve complex problems.

  • Apply advanced tool and equipment manipulation techniques to solve problems.

B. Apply appropriate instruments and apparatus to examine a variety of objects and processes.

  • Describe and use appropriate instruments to gather and analyze data.

  • Compare and contrast different scientific measurement systems; select the best measurement system for a specific situation.

  • Explain the need to estimate measurements within error of various instruments.

  • Apply accurate measurement knowledge to solve everyday problems.

  • Describe and demonstrate the operation and use of advanced instrumentation in evaluating material and chemical properties (e.g., scanning electron microscope, nuclear magnetic resonance

C. Apply basic computer operations and concepts.

  • Identify solutions to basic hardware and software problems.

  • Apply knowledge of advanced input devices.

  • Apply knowledge of hardware setup.

  • Describe the process for basic software installation and demonstrate it.

  • Analyze and solve basic operating systems problems.

  • Apply touch keyboarding skills and techniques at expectable speed and accuracy.

  • Demonstrate the ability to perform basic software installation.

D. Utilize computer software to solve specific problems.

  • Identify legal restrictions in the use of software and the output of data.

  • Apply advanced graphic manipulation and desktop publishing techniques.

  • Apply basic multimedia applications.

  • Apply advanced word processing, database and spreadsheet skills.

  • Describe and demonstrate how two or more software applications can be used to produce an output.

  • Select and apply software designed to meet specific needs.

E. Apply basic computer communications systems.

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3.8.10. Science, Technology, and Human Endeavors


Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

A. Analyze the relationship between societal demands and scientific and technological enterprises.

  • Identify past and current tradeoffs between increased production, environmental harm and social values (e.g., increased energy needs, power plants, automobiles).

  • Compare technologies that are applied and accepted differently in various cultures (e.g., factory farming, nuclear power).

  • Describe and evaluate social change as a result of technological developments.

  • Assess the social impacts of a specific international environmental problem by designing a solution that applies the appropriate technologies and resources.

B. Analyze how human ingenuity and technological resources satisfy specific human needs and improve the quality of life.

  • Identify several problems and opportunities that exist in your community, apply various problem-solving methods to design and evaluate possible solutions.

  • Analyze a recently invented item, describing the human need that prompted its invention and the current and potential social impacts of the specific invention.

  • Apply knowledge of oceanography, meteorology, geology and human anatomy to explain important considerations that need to be made for construction of homes, buildings and businesses in the United States.

  • Assess the impacts that agricultural science has had on meeting human needs and improving the quality of life.

C. Evaluate possibilities consequences and impacts of scientific and technological solutions.

  • Relate scientific and technological advancements in terms of cause and effect.

  • Describe and evaluate the impacts that financial considerations have had on specific scientific and technological applications.

  • Compare and contrast potential solutions to technological, social, economic and environmental problems.

  • Analyze the impacts on society of accepting or rejecting scientific and technological advances.

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